Leopold Bloom ate with relish...

the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards,

Copyright 1922 James Joyce
Random House publication date 1933

a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.

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Annoying, huh? Well, television producers, imagine how I feel when you start the action, then announce the directors name, then run a little more action, then put up the screenwriters name, then a little more action, etc.

Yes, this bookkeeping sort of business must be done, but get it all out of the way at once: don't intersperse it with the work of art!

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