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What Bartleby Can Teach Us About Occupy Wall Street

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street," composed in 1853, is perhaps Herman Melville's most famous short story. It's certainly his most inscrutable.

When Reading Fails

In light of several recent posts around here about reading (as genre, as practice, and as cultural marker), I thought I'd take the occasion of my first post to complicate reading-- and all that it entails-- a little more. 

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