fugitive visits to Manhattanville
to avoid the unchanging, not particular, he takes a "tour" of familiar places, becomes the vagrant?
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a huge folio
The size of a book with paper sheets folded only once.
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you
extended dialogue with himself
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Poor fellow, poor fellow! thought I, he don’t mean any
Old Adam and new commandment: the narrator, Christian, is used to referring to the "Old Testament" vs. "New Testament" view: revenge, justice, an eye for an eye vs. mercy. The argument that charity is self-interest is perfect satire (Melville's) of liberalism, which serves free markets and capitalism.
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still more unfortunate Colt
Abel and Cain
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future leisure
the time of business always postpones moral dilemmas
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Nippers’ ugly mood was on duty and Turkey’s
Ugly feelings?
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pillar of salt
punishment for disobeying a commandment (Lot's wife)
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view
view (landscape painters) ironically invites aesthetic judgment.
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the late John Jacob Astor’s
repeat, loves to repeat. Narrator lays stress on words for motivation and temperament (safe, method).
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the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done. I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of this man. It is an irreparable loss to literature.
The frame category introduced in the first sentence is of scriveners--the speakers knowsn many--who might have complete bios (but he won't bother us with them). The narrator will focus on the one whose bio is lost.
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