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Date: November and December 1853, 1856

"To befriend Bartleby; to humor him in his strange wilfulness, will cost me little or nothing, while I lay up in my soul what will eventually prove a sweet morsel for my conscience."

— Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.