thursday of course. tomorrow is killing day. springers. cuffe sold them about twentyseven quid each. for liverpool probably. roast beef for old england. they buy up all the juicy ones. and then the fifth quarter is lost: all that raw stuff, hide, hair, horns. comes to a big thing in a year. dead meat trade. byproducts of the slaughterhouses for tanneries, soap, margarine. wonder if that dodge works now getting dicky meat off the train at clonsilla.
the carriage moved on through the drove.
-- i can't make out why the corporation doesn't run a tramline from the parkgate to the quays, mr bloom said. all those animals could be taken in trucks down to the boats.
-- instead of blocking up the thoroughfare, martin cunningham said. quite right. they ought to.
-- yes, mr bloom said, and another thing i often thought is to have municipal funeral trams like they have in milan, you know. run the line out to the cemetery gates and have special trams, hearse and carriage and all. don't you see what i mean?
-- o that be damned for a story, mr dedalus said. pullman car and saloon diningroom.
-- a poor lookout for corny, mr power added.
-- why? mr bloom asked, turning to mr dedalus. wouldn't it be more decent than galloping two abreast?
-- well, there's something in that, mr dedalus granted.
-- and, martin cunningham said, we wouldn't have scenes like that when the hearse capsized round dunphy's and upset the coffin on to the road.
-- that was terrible, mr power's shocked face said, and the corpse fell about the road. terrible!
-- first round dunphy's, mr dedalus aid, nodding. gordon bennett cup.
-- praises be to god! martin cunningham said piously.
bom! upset. a coffin bumped out on to the road. burst open. paddy dignam shot out and rolling over stiff in the dust in a brown habit too large for him. red face: grey now. mouth fallen open. asking what's up now. quite right to close it. looks horrid open. then the insides decompose quickly. much better to close up all the orifices. yes, also. with wax. the sphincter loose. seal up all.