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Title: cherish the little resister in yourself
Review: Bartleby's is a negation of the whole of modern, civilized life and the strains and expectations it places on working people. Bartleby, for reasons many of us can share, refuses the whole set-up of his social existence, without though marking a new path or any positive vision of how he and we might live together. Consequently, he ends up destitute and lonely, but true to his stubborn resistance. I think of him often when I see hard-headed five-year olds and how right they so often are in their druthers.
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