On Not Hating the Body

Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

…The cat walked stiffly round a leg of the table with tail on high.

—Mkgnao!

… Mr Bloom watched curiously, kindly, the lithe black form.

                    JAMES JOYCE, ULYSSES

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