Occupying History

[Prashant Kumar]

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it
through not dying."

-- Woody Allen

On 3 May 2012 10:54, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Coe notes that readers, even professional readers, have either ignored
> or misread P's essay because they prefer a secular P.
>
> In Hamlet's language, P has a tongue in his cheek, even if that cheek
> is as chopfallen as the skull of the man of infinte jest, and even if
> P, who doubts what a piece of work man is, doubts not that dreams
> won't come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
>
> Once dead we will never dream again, though we may be dreamed of; we
> may haunt the dreams of others.
>
> This is, of course what Bartleby Occupies. He occupies Wall Street
> though he sleeps with counselors and kings in the Tombs, he continues
> to haunt the lawyer narrator who tells us the story of Bartleby, a
> Story of Wall Street.
>
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