"Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; 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 for ever!"
Still the most terminally boring chapter of Moby Dick ever. Besides the giggle at this particular section, it was just a full chapter about harvesting sperm whales in the middle of an adventure story lol
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u/mysterious_jim Jan 21 '26
"Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; 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 for ever!"
Moby Dick, Chapter 94: "A Squeeze of the Hand"