"Indeed, the settlement of this question must be left to the commentators on Mardi, some four or five hundred centuries hence."
-- Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither
...and so drown--or hang himself: (the author cannot decide which--even after a post mortem examination;--and so leaves the decision of this important point to the commentators.)
--March 1853 Scenes Beyond the Western Border; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army.