James Joyce quote about cheese from Ulysses - A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
 James Joyce, Ulysses (1922). copy citation

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Author James Joyce
Source Ulysses
Topic cheese meat corpse
Date 1922
Language English
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Weblink https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4300/4300-h/4300-h.htm

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“Robert Emmet was buried here by torchlight, wasn't he? Making his rounds.
Tail gone now.
One of those chaps would make short work of a fellow. Pick the bones clean no matter who it was. Ordinary meat for them. A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. I read in that Voyages in China that the Chinese say a white man smells like a corpse. Cremation better. Priests dead against it. Devilling for the other firm. Wholesale burners and Dutch oven dealers.” source

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