Moby Dick, the American Classic

I was Sparknoting Moby Dick when odd lines kept popping up:

"Ishmael admits that he is 'manhandling' the whale in his description, but he says that he is doing the best that he knows how."
..Which is manhandling.

"Ishmael describes the other parts of the whale, including the penis, euphemistically named the 'cassock.' He blasphemously likens the whale's organ to the dress of clergymen because it has some pagan mysticism attached to it."
How is there a religious mysticism.. to a FUCKING PENIS?!

"Ishmael is carried away with enthusiasm for the 'sweet and unctuous' sperm. He squeezes all morning long, sentimentally describing his physical contact with the other sailors, whose hands he unintentionally gropes in the vat of sperm."
.. Wtf! what kinda guy gets enthusiastic about sperm?!


This makes me think of South Park when Mr. Garrison was writing a "romance novel," but it actually was a porno. The whole storyline was just about penises, even a "redwood forest of penises." O__X Herman Melville.. I wouldn't be surprised if he was gay. -___-;