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"Story 4: The Lightning-Rod Man" This parable felt like the best dinner-party andecote you'd leave the evening with, and that's a high compliment. Some truly funny bits, like how the flim-flam man avoided lightning in neurotic and absurd ways ("I avoid pine-trees, high houses, lonely barns, upland pastures, running water, flocks of cattle and sheep, a crowd of men...but of all things, I avoid tall men."

"Story 3: Benito Cereno" - the reveal was positively chilling, and inserting oneself in-between the prejudices of the Americans and Europeans against the play of enslaved revolt was fascinating. Definitely a story which grows more layered as history marches on.

Story 2: Bartleby, the Scrivener - "a man of preferences rather than assumptions!"

Finished: Introduction by John Updike,
"The Piazza"