I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
October 3, 1860: On this day, as he sailed north toward San Francisco, Moby-Dick author Herman Melville wrote, "The work that I was born to do is done!" While he wrote little fiction after this declaration, he did continue to publish poems.
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