In the canon
Bartleby the Scrivener
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1853
- Pages
- Pages 60
A Wall Street lawyer hires a quiet new copyist who does fine work until, asked to do anything at all, he starts answering only that he would prefer not to, and slides by pure refusal from the office into prison and death.
I would prefer not to.
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