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Expression: what price the fellow #1 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:25 am   Expression: what price the fellow
 

Hi,

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

Quote:
... That touches a man's inmost heart.
--It does, Mr Bloom said.
Your heart perhaps but what price the fellow in the six feet by two with his toes to the daisies? No touching that.

Is the underlined part saying: what price (value) does it have for the fellow in...? or what price the fellow would pay in...?

Thank you!

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Expression: what price the fellow #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:44 am   Expression: what price the fellow
 

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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Expression: what price the fellow #3 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 4:05 am   Expression: what price the fellow
 

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?

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Expression: what price the fellow #4 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:59 am   Expression: what price the fellow
 

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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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Expression: what price the fellow #5 (permalink) Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:35 am   Expression: what price the fellow
 

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

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