TPPM (9): "Bartleby" and "desperado"

[Tim Strzechowski]

"By the time of Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street (1853), acedia had lost the last of its religious reverberations and was now an offense against the economy. Right in the heart of robberbaron capitalism, the title character develops what proves to be terminal acedia. It is like one of those western tales where the desperado keeps making choices that only herd him closer to the one disagreeable finale." [...]

http://www.bartleby.com/129/

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/bartleby/


This looks like an interesting class:

http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/RRuppel/257.html

http://www.viterbo.edu/personalpages/faculty/RRuppel/257/Bartleby.html


On the word "desperado":

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/desperado

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=d&p=7

And of course:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112851/

http://www.eaglesmusic.com/
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