The 74 most incredible lines in "Moby Dick"

"Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze! All the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it."

Well, it took nearly four months, but we made it. Shortly before leaving for the airport last week, I turned that final dastardly page in Moby Dick and felt bliss, exhaustion, a fleeting jolt of total cultural superiority, as well as the kind of Pavlovian sleepiness that comes from having ended most nights in this calendar year with at least a couple of…