What is this an allusion or reference to?

Question

I know you," he said, without looking round,--"and I want nothing to say to you." - Bartelby the Scrivener

Answer 1

My guess would be the Bible.

"In his visits to Bartleby in prison, the attorney finds him both more adamant and more accusing than ever. He refuses to eat, to change, to ameliorate his forlornness--not to prefer not to. Staring at yet more walls, Bartleby says to that man who comfortably accepts the walled-in life: "I know you . . . and I want nothing to say to you." Deeply moved by such solitary resistance, the narrator feels Bartleby to be some sacrificial figure amongst the thieves and murderers. At Bartleby's final denial, lying in lonely death amidst the Egyptian masonry, the narrator pronounces the final epitaph: Bartleby sleeps, he says, "With kings and counsellors." The phrase probably comes from Job's rebellious curses (3.14) of an unjust and inexplicable cosmos. With such heightening of the defiant scrivener, the majesty of negation and the wisdom of defeat become unmistakable to the narrator and the reader."

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartleby_the_Scrivener

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