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But how does one photograph _thoughts_ about food or desire?
Watching Bloom fry a kidney is a reminder of the passage beginning

    Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts
    and fowls.  He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a
    stuffed roast heart, liver slices fried with crust-crumbs,
    fried hencod's roes.  Most of all he liked grilled mutton
    kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly
    scented urine.
    
For those who don't know the passage it is only a dear, funny little
man frying a kidney.
		-- Pauline Kael on the problems in adapting James
		   Joyce's _Ulysses_ to the screen in _Kiss Kiss
		   Bang Bang_, p. 169.

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