This work, reinterpreted by Peter Straub into the story “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff,” mentions the Joseph Priestly work The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity, which the narrator says “induce[s] a salutary feeling.” The narrator mentions that the main setting of this work is divided into two parts by a glass wall, and one character, who shares his name with an Anatolian country, asks the narrator if he should “black [the] eyes” of the title character. After attending the Trinity Church one Sunday, the narrator finds the title character in his place of business and describes him as “Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage” before commenting on the fact that he and the narrator shared a “fraternal melancholy” as “sons of Adam.” When that perhaps depressed title character dies in the Halls of Justice, the narrator says that he sleeps “with kings and counsellors” and compares him to humanity. For ten points, name this “story of Wall Street” whose title character, formerly employed at the Dead Letter Office, repeatedly states “I would prefer not to.”
This work, reinterpreted by Peter Straub into the story “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff,” mentions the Joseph Priestly work The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity, which the narrator says “induce[s] a salutary feeling.” The narrator mentions that the main setting of this work is divided into two parts by a glass wall, and one character, who shares his name with an Anatolian country, asks the narrator if he should “black [the] eyes” of the title character. After attending the Trinity Church one Sunday, the narrator finds the title character in his place of business and describes him as “Marius brooding among the ruins of Carthage” before commenting on the fact that he and the narrator shared a “fraternal melancholy” as “sons of Adam.” When that perhaps depressed title character dies in the Halls of Justice, the narrator says that he sleeps “with kings and counsellors” and compares him to humanity. For ten points, name this “story of Wall Street” whose title character, formerly employed at the Dead Letter Office, repeatedly states “I would prefer not to.”
This work, reinterpreted by Peter Straub into the story “Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff,” mentions the Joseph Priestly work The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity, which the narrator says “induce[s] a salutary feeling.