Expression: what price the fellow

[Haihao]

Hi,

I have got another question to ask of you on VI, Ulysses.

[Yankee]

Hi Haihao

The expression pushing up daisies means "dead", and I'd say that "toes to the daisies" is also a reference to a dead person.

So, "the fellow in the six feet by two with his toes to the daisies" refers to someone who is dead and buried (toes to the daisies) in a coffin (the six feet by two).
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[Haihao]

Thank you, Amy, for your explanation. But I am still a little unclear about the 'what price' part. Could you please help me with that again?

Haihao.

[Mister Micawber]

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The way I read it, the touching of Mr Kernan's heart by the funeral service ('I am the resurrection and the life') has been paid for at the price of Dignam's death. Bloom clearly does not believe in that Catholic hope-- later in the same paragraph: 'Once you are dead you are dead'.
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[Haihao]

Oh, that explains 'what price'. I am clear now, Mister Micawber, Thank you!

Haihao