Bartleby the Inscrutable A collection edited by M. Thomas Inge (Parker's "The Sequel")

[alice wellintown]

Maybe the best of the collection

The "Sequel" in "Bartleby"

by HERSHEL PARKER

here-----> http://web.ku.edu/~zeke/bartleby/parker.html

The notion of melancholy here is quite an important one in Melville.
As with humor, laughter, it is an irrational force, like nature's own
gravity.