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the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done. I believe that no materials exist for a full and satisfactory biography of this man. It is an irreparable loss to literature.
The frame category introduced in the first sentence is of scriveners--the speakers knowsn many--who might have complete bios (but he won't bother us with them). The narrator will focus on the one whose bio is lost.
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