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Month: January 2020

Posted on January 19, 2020December 29, 2020

Another Bartleby Surprise

Last year around this time, I launched The White Whale with a post not about Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, but rather his short story, “Bartleby, the Scrivener.” It’s such a curious story, and when I had written about it before, I had been obsessing about John Jacob Astor, a name mentioned by the narrator at the …

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Although I consider myself a teacher and a writer, I am, first and foremost, a student.  My blog, therefore, is about looking deeper than the surface level, which I always challenge my high school students to do.  We’re always after Ahab’s White Whale, whether it be interpretation, research, or simply the white page before the writer.

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