The last encounter between the attorney and Bartleby in Herman Melville’s short story ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ (1853) – as described by the attorney – takes place in the following way: “I paused; then went close up to him; stooped over, and saw that his dim eyes were open; otherwise he seemed profoundly sleeping. Something prompted me to touch him. I felt his hand, when a tingling shiver ran up my arm and down my spine to my feet” (Melville, 2007: 38).