Tokens of ghostwriting

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Tokens of ghostwriting by Scott Norsworthy

Writing, talking, and rewriting like Herman Melville in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border" (1851-1853). Chapter 2.

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Leave it for the commentators

"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.