The story is here, I'm annotating on paper, so no doc link.
Summary: Ah Bartleby! Ah Humanity! (He would prefer not to.)
Commentary: I'd been meaning to reread "Bartleby" for a while (I read it in undergrad) for a while. It seemed like a good choice to try Adler's method. Long enough that I might want to go back and look at notes, and could outline more than a sentence, and some other Melville is in The Great Books so it's at least tangentially related.
Overall, I don't think most of Adler's method is so different than my default. The big difference is the "outlines" at the front and the back. It's not entirely clear to me what each one is/how they're different. I went for a traditional outline at the back, and a snappy summary up front.
Keeping track of the numbers for the summary was a good exercise in keeping track of the plot. I think this method is mostly meant for non-fiction, and that he has fiction specific directions in his book. I had a copy of The Godfather that I got used once that had little hand written notes for every chapter. I liked it. I did something similar when I read the Odyssey last year.
More on the story itself tomorrow.
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