...his equal-opposite comes to us fresh and strange through that grand opening sentence of "Calypso": "Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls" (55). He is the very substance of the Old Testament smoke-eating "Jehovah, collector of prepuces" (201)...

...strives fastidiously after le mot juste: Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, ... Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. (U 57) Perfume of embraces all him assailed. With hungered flesh obscurely, he mutely craved to adore....

...himself (195). What a way to describe the leap from fourteen pages of Stephen's erudite musings into "Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls." And thinking about Leopold Bloom after Oedipa Maas may rekindle our amazement, or cause us to wonder...

...etc Tn.v KOTO ufjva TOÛ ßaotXeüx; yevéSAiov fmepav eiç . It was much more Greek than Jewish that "Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls" (Joyce, Ulysses). Fortunately the gods were of ethereal enough substance that they could mostly be...

...introduced as one who gets pleasure from precisely what horrifies Stephen, the eating of "urinous offal": "Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs...giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys...

...relish the inner organs, nutty gizzards," and other foods. This reverts to our introduction to Bloom: "Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs...fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards" (U 1 1 .52o; 4. 1-2). As Kenner remarks of these passages: "Some mind . . . keeps track of the details...

..."Calypso," Joyce links two kinds of Fleisch: womanflesh and animal meat. The chapter famously begins: "Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls." This statement jolts the reader from the neo-Platonism of Stephen Dedalus to the bodily desires of...

..."helps to affirm the elan vital of human life" (20). James Joyce's Leopold Bloom, for example, eats "with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls":...heart, liver slices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of...

..."Calypso" The opening of "Calypso" restores our sense of the separateness of narrator and narrated: "Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs...giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencod's roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys...

...appearance, in the Calypso chapter, is unaccompanied by any account of his features or physical shape: 'Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.' His Jewish identity is both easily resolved and also undecidable, depending on whether one's perspective...