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The word "docket" in literature often signifies an official record or document, a usage that threads through various narrative contexts. In La Fontaine's work, for instance, it appears as a point of careful attention—"keep an eye on the docket" [1]—suggesting vigilance over bureaucratic details. James Joyce takes this further by having characters interact with dockets in multifaceted ways, whether as a mundane tool for recording addresses and transactions [2][3] or as an identifier linked to grave matters, as seen in the burial docket letter [4]. Charles Dickens, too, employs the term to denote a neatly organized note filed away in a secretarial drawer [5], highlighting its function as a marker of order amidst the chaos of daily life.
  1. Keep an eye on the docket, Eh?
    — from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine
  2. —Will you write the address, sir? Blazes Boylan at the counter wrote and pushed the docket to her.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  3. The blond girl handed him a docket and pencil.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  4. JOHN O’CONNELL: Burial docket letter number U. P. eightyfive thousand.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  5. I docket it neatly at the secretaire, Jones , and I put it into pigeonhole
    — from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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