“Mr. Parker has brilliantly updated his source and grasped its essence, composing a sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor…Parker has done his job beautifully, using the literature of the past to make the present look as strange as it really is.”
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Bartleby
A complacent boss is flummoxed by a cryptic office worker whose refusal of duties is accompanied by the phrase, “I would prefer not to.”