I love that this is standard reading in many American high schools
Come; let us squeeze hands all around; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.
Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm forever!
------ Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Chapter 94
The "sperm" here is the spermaceti oil of the Sperm Whale. I'd say the mind-in-the-gutter interpretation was unintentional, but having read "Billy Budd" -- Melville's short story about homosexuality -- and since the guy speaking here describes himself as married to another man, I know Melville wasn't quite that naive.
On that note I am finally reading Moby Dick, whose second half I skimmed for my exam, but didn't read carefully.
Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm forever!
------ Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Chapter 94
The "sperm" here is the spermaceti oil of the Sperm Whale. I'd say the mind-in-the-gutter interpretation was unintentional, but having read "Billy Budd" -- Melville's short story about homosexuality -- and since the guy speaking here describes himself as married to another man, I know Melville wasn't quite that naive.
On that note I am finally reading Moby Dick, whose second half I skimmed for my exam, but didn't read carefully.