Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street by HERMAN MELVILLE Audiobook - Bob Tassinari

[@InfernoFlame99]

Teacher: read this 30+ page story Me: i would prefer not to

[@alterbr33d]

Teacher: read this 30+ page story Me: (blank stare)

[@DaveSCameron]

Slap da quilt!

[@zoe-xi7qg]

Read this "short story"

[@Swiftninjatrev]

Wait it's really an hour and a half read 😭😭

[@WMJ_OFFICIAL]

Bartleby straight vibin, let him be

[@Swiftninjatrev]

Bartleby is really just a chill guy

[@M.2000-v2g]

Thank you, I preferred not to read it

[@stupidhawkeyes]

Ohhh, I see what you did there!

[@Delulubooklover]

It’s too long for that Scheibe

[@shaggy7735]

this deserves more likes

[@81wwwolf]

Looks like you have already😂

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real.

[@mayorga971]

bartleby 🔥💯juss 😳chillin 🥶🥵in the office 🏢❄️🔥

[@harshleensingh2429]

Bartleby 🥵do be having 🔥some🥶 Christ 🙏like characteristics 😬😬

[@mattnguyen493]

bruh😳 batleby do😴 be sounding 👌🥶 like a mofo 😓🤭 cat 🙀

[@DaveSCameron]

Battyboybartles?

[@Swiftninjatrev]

He's just a chill guy

[@mudkiper22802]

I love when my English teacher gave us one weekday to read this and study it for a quiz 💀

[@GFTP-lx2wd]

Same bruh me rn

[@drewmorgan4080]

Tell me you said "I prefer not to" and got 100

[@angelaslnc1776]

i refuse to read the whole thing and my exam is in 2 days

[@bec1289]

i have a day

[@HektikDevil]

Get used to it. It’s normal at the collegiate level. It’s only 30-ish pages.

[@mikacanseco5651]

he really just said no

[@lalalama4591]

Thanks for this reading! I couldn’t understand the story reading it myself

[@wizardmoto]

"With kings and counselors." is one of the greatest sentences ever penned.

[@TinaTu22]

Wait what does this mean

[@wizardmoto]

@TinaTu22 My comment, or the sentence itself? The sentence itself: I suppose ultimately it is up to interpretation by the reader. My interpretation is that it is the single most beautiful way to describe heaven; as it is objectively a-religous, while invoking religious imagery regardless of the readers faith, and describing an undeniably safe/postive place for someone to "sleep" eternally. My comment: I think that sentence is super rad, for all the reasons described above. I am 10000% plagiarizing it at the next eulogy I give.

[@athickie]

Perfect narrator for this story

[@baconeggpotatoandcheese]

lol this was a real knee slapper yo, the original the office. love the way you softened the "I prefer not to" ha ha good good!

[@MrHeroFamily]

Section 2 22:30 Section 3 40:43 Section 4 1:05:18

[@burninglite9908]

ty timestamper

[@corpsdice2910]

This is great when i want to take short breaks from listening

[@katiechavez4225]

bUt whEn dOeS seCtiOn 1 stArt?

[@Bloodhurl67]

Thank you! I needed a break once I reached section 3

[@kevinladd9163]

Nice work, thank you. I think the tone you use for Bartleby himself really adds to the reader(listener)'s understanding of the character's withdrawing and dissociating from his world. I don't think the first-time reader would recognize the suggestions towards this unraveling which Melville illustrates as early had you not softened his voice as you did. Nice work

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@@austincolucci8303 I'm on my last semester of undergrad, majoring in English w/ a literature focus.

[@lm-op9jb]

Thanks I couldn’t be bothered to read it for uni

[@DaveSCameron]

That's the spirit sonsshine

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@@DaveSCameron 😂😂

[@Swiftninjatrev]

😂

[@Thelaw9537]

Thank you for this audiobook!!!!

[@octaviusbrahm3558]

"I would prefer not to" I see where this is going...

[@0shuas]

teacher really said we have another small reading assignment ma’am i’d prefer we don’t

[@svalbard01]

1:19:52 Rockaway: A term applied to two types of carriage: a light, low, United States four-wheel carriage with a fixed top and open sides that may be covered by waterproof curtains, and a heavy carriage enclosed at sides and rear, with a door on each side.

[@sarahjones79]

Great reading!! Many thanks!!

[@bernardoelopes]

Great reading! Great story to be revisited! 💙

[@L91-r5b]

Feeling the same

[@SRFMF]

AITA?:I let my scrivener live at the office and now he won’t do anything-should we move?😅

[@sarahalshaban8128]

@45:17 "what I saw that morning persuaded me that ...was the victim of innate and incurable disorder"

[@DaveSCameron]

?

[@belleretiredaccount]

Thank you!

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22:34

[@Mursmurs325]

One of the most creepiest story I have ever read!

[@carterriphagen7241]

Ya this is up there with The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe.

[@nino0365]

Robert Gluzman why is it scary for you?

[@carterriphagen7241]

It's not really scary I find it creepy, just like Tell-Tale Heart I found that creepy.

[@CivilWarBuff82]

Bartleby acts like some type of SCP tbh

[@mothboy420]

It's either creepiest or most creepy, not "most creepiest"

[@jdog2162]

Thank you so much

[@marvelousmimi9165]

Thanks so much 😭😭

[@magnusindridason8368]

Great read!

[@TSAirica]

This is basically The Office

[@skeetman22]

Bunny or the movie Office Space

[@alizayamills3434]

Right

[@DaveSCameron]

In a gay lavatory maybe...

[@pint_of_alearg3672]

Thank you sir

[@BlindGuyThoughts]

Thank you

[@thomascardaman7376]

Fasten your seatbelt…..bartleby: “thank sir, that is something I would prefer to do”

[@DaveSCameron]

Is he gay?

[@alangarcia8381]

Good story but what does it meannnn

[@Swiftninjatrev]

Appreciate it

[@suzipam1234]

I wonder if he was deeply depressed?

[@Querymonger]

Melville himself certainly was at the time

[@jamesbrock3859]

The boss is an extreme people pleaser. His staff walk all over him, doing whatever they please, and he makes excuse after excuse for them.

[@kayet.426]

That's the best kind of boss. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Bloodhurl67]

​@@kayet.426You're not wrong lol

[@Querymonger]

He said right at the start that he is a passive man and chose this career field because it doesn't require any drive personality or ambition

[@carmenchen3588]

wasn't rlly ready for this book listening to it felt pretty calm like audiobook rlly helps

[@JehzusHChrist]

Me reading/listening to this shit for the first time, the night before my final exam: 🤡

[@clintgillespie8579]

Bartleby really brought that upon himself. The narrator literally offered to let him live at his house and instead Bartleby preferred to go to jail and die.

[@annacochran5573]

book mark: 36:37 55:30

[@xSTTS]

41:41 happiness courts the light

[@oopley6809]

leave my boy fartleby alone, he be tryin

[@alexparadise91]

1:02:41 bookmark 1:12:11

[@amelia6219]

26:47 i love bartleby

[@michaelgilbert3713]

❤ 👉🏼 AUSGEZEICHNET Bob excellent read 📖 😊

[@Yamsnewroman]

don't mind me just saving my place 17:21

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22:25

[@DaveSCameron]

Yes, annoying *

[@auracarrillo5873]

What a strange and poignant tale

[@DaveSCameron]

any sex?

[@babymallo]

36:00 1:05:40 paragraph 167

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45:18...Bookmark

[@peace_cat76]

Excellent part: "What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of innate and incurable disorder. I might give alms to his body; but his body did not pain him; it was his soul that suffered, and his soul I could not reach." -Herman Melville (b. Aug 1, 1819, New York - Sept 28, 1891) p 20 "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) Is Melville describing autism? It is believed that the author himself suffered. As to what extent on the spectrum, I can't be sure. OR, whether this has to do with that at all, let's take his wordit is the soul, or spirit. Methinks then this points back to the narrator, as his own spirit, in the guise of Bartleby, who is perhaps pestering him to retire.

[@ituoiocchisudeme6606]

Bartleby is just Kawhi Leonard

[@Querymonger]

Bartleby the Hooper

[@KyleCOOLman]

22:29 section 2

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40:33 Section 3

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1:05:12 section 4

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I also would prefer not to

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38:24 - Bookmark

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56:06~bookmark

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28:13 pg 152

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bookmark 1:05:13

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20:24 bookmark

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33:00 59:44

[@peace_cat76]

Good catch. This quote does give us a clue, in my opinion: "Like a very ghost, agreeably to the laws of magical invocation, at the third summons, he appeared at the entrance of his hermitage." -Herman Melville (b. Aug 1, 1819, New York - Sept 28, 1891) p 16 "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) To me, Bartleby is a ghost👻 the very ghost of the narrator. As described he is old, so perhaps at retirement age? But he's not going gentle into that good night, is he?

[@nakiahannah280]

27:29....bookmark

[@hillik3167]

bro did he die?

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35:42 Bookmark

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1:03:54

[@peace_cat76]

Great part👍 p 28 "Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy’s sake, and anger’s sake, and hatred’s sake, and selfishness’ sake, and spiritual pride’s sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity’s sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy. At any rate, upon the occasion in question, I strove to drown my exasperated feelings towards the scrivener by benevolently construing his conduct. Poor fellow, poor fellow! thought I, he don’t mean any thing; and besides, he has seen hard times, and ought to be indulged." -Herman Melville (b. Aug 1, 1819, New York - Sept 28, 1891) p 11-2 "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853)

[@markgonzalez412]

"I'm tired"

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34:28 marked

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51:14

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What a coincidence.

[@prog8454]

14:26 pg 10

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1:13:43 182

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freak.

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Page 12 As

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Hi lol

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Herman the Virgin*

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[@nickacca]

BORING!!!!

[@Anika420]

All books are boring dont blame the video lol

[@Rick_Sanchez_C137_]

Anika Books, in general, are only boring to the boring mind... it is not the fault of books for your lack of intellect.

[@Anika420]

@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ so if a book was about the process of cardboard making . Or say if the book was a instruction manual to a car. And you didnt wanna read it cause it's boring does that make you a person without a intellectual mind?

[@joshuabelfield7592]

Anika but you didn’t just say that certain books are boring or even that just this book is boring. No, you said that “All books are boring”. This makes it sound like you don’t like literature at all, and thus it’s pretty applicable to say that it’s more of an intellectual issue. Yes car manuals aren’t fun to read, but this isn’t a car manual. This is a classic work of literature. It sounds boring to the modern mind because it has 1800s mentality of what is good literature. I find it actually pretty fun to listen to so far. Please don’t call “all books” boring. They wouldn’t be so famous if everyone thought that they were boring.

[@MaxGreen111]

Really? I thought it was funny at first... then strange and intriguing... then just sad.

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Thank you

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[@peace_cat76]

Excellent part! p 30 "What shall I do? I now said to myself, buttoning up my coat to the last button. What shall I do? what ought I to do? what does conscience say I should do with this man, or rather ghost. Rid myself of him, I must; go, he shall. But how? You will not thrust him, the poor, pale, passive mortal,-you will not thrust such a helpless creature out of your door? you will not dishonor yourself by such cruelty? No, I will not, I cannot do that. Rather would I let him live and die here, and then mason up his remains in the wall. What then will you do? For all your coaxing, he will not budge." -Herman Melville (b. Aug 1, 1819, New York - Sept 28, 1891) p 30 "Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) Man, if this doesn't confirm my suspicions that Bartleby is indeed a ghost👻 The ghost of the narrator himself. The old lawyer just won't retire. Just won't go gentle into that good night.

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