Word: mss
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS in my desk, men here I prospectively ascribe all the honor and the glory to whaling, for a whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard. Herman Melville Moby Dick...
Naturally if I didn't think my melodic line was stronger, "better," had more guts than the general ruck of music I wd. have burnt the mss. instead of instigating its performance...