... compliance that the trio of Turkey, Nippers and Ginger Nut could offer. He is, after all, the supreme being in Melville's miniature social order. To be confronted by something like Bartleby's dissention after only having to deal with the shallow antics of the original assistants would be considered culture shock to most people. The original scriveners and office boy had served ... narrator] should have been quite delighted with his application had he been cheerfully industrious, but he wrote on silently, palely, mechanically." (9) Throughout the pages transcribed and the incalculable ho...

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