Bartleby’s Preference: Res Ipsa Loquitur

I muse upon my country's ills-The Tempest bursting from the waste of TimeOn the world's fairest hope linked with man's foulest crime. Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, published in late 1853, involves a law clerk whose job profile - that of “scrivener”- in reality comprised a wide range of menial writing assignments: from the standardized drawing up of bills, bonds, deeds, leases, etc. to the mechanical copying of documents. Compared to the other..