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Pill Pod 55 - ”I Would Prefer Not To”

Sep 24, 2021

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The Landlord Is a Kind of Satire of Christian Morality, Right?

01:31

I've No Problem With Violent Readings of Bartleby, Right?

01:56

I Would Prefer Not to Copy

01:57

Introduction

2min

I've Met Pills, the Long Awaited.

2min

The Thorough Breakdown

2min

Is This a Scrivener?

2min

What's the Significance of Melville in American Literature?

2min

Bartleby the Screvener, a Psychotherapist

2min

Did He Work on Wall Street?

2min

Moby's a Minor Celebrity of the Nineties?

2min

Moby Dick and the Screvener's Dissatisfaction in New York City

3min

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The Most Relative Essay Short Story Ever Read

2min

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Sex Violence Adventure by Hej Melvile

2min

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Is That a Wrong Interpretation of Bartleby?

2min

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The Law Firm Scrivner - A Spoilerler

2min

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I Would Prefer Not to Copy

2min

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Cicero - The Boss's Office

2min

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Is There a Nickname for Bartleby?

2min

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'Turkey and Gingernut'

2min

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Nippers Is a Strange Dud, Right?

2min

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Wev Got Ll or Characters

2min

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The End of Bartleby

2min

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Is This a Melville Short Story?

2min

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The Boss's Logical Cowardice

2min

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The Great Refusal

2min

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The Landlord Is a Kind of Satire of Christian Morality, Right?

2min

25.

Is This a Melville?

2min

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Bartleby's in Prison

2min

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Is This the Allegory of Moby Dick?

2min

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Is There a Bartleby?

2min

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I've Been So Used to the Left Wing Reading at This That I Was Just Going to See It, Right?

2min

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I Like Not to Say No to the System, but I Prefer Not To

2min

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A Bartleby, a Bartlett

3min

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Is This a Deflationary Reading?

2min

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I've No Problem With Violent Readings of Bartleby, Right?

2min

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Bartleby's 'I Prefer Not To'

2min

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Is This a Kind of Edgy Protest Politics That Just Gets Caught Up?

2min

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I Really Enjoyed Kakas M Metamorphosis

2min

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Is the Narrator Reliable?

2min

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Bbunchehand Reading Is Just a Tale of Exhaustion, That's What It Is

3min

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Bartleby's Death Is the Death of Younow

2min

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The Dead Letter Office in Washington

2min

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The Death of Bartleby

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Bartleby Is Just the Elements of Death

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The Bartleby Moment

3min

Evoked by no less than Agamben, Byung-Chul Han, Deleuze, and Zizek's wardrobe, Bartleby is a compelling character. This week we are joined by Lit Vic to bust us into some literary analysis of a prophet of American capitalism: Herman Melville, in his text "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Read the text for free here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231 Anything you've missed is up at www.patreon.com/plasticpills

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