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paunch filled with blood and fat in Ulysses’s turning simile

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paunch filled with blood and fat in Ulysses’s turning simile
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A blood-and-fat-filled paunch is turned before a hot fire to cook quickly in the simile for Ulysses’s restlessness.

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“a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side and then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible”

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“as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire”

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Book 20 · Passage 2

Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side and then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible, even so did he turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men as the wicked suitors. But by and by Minerva came down from heaven in the likeness of a woman, and hovered over his head saying, ‘My poor unhappy man, why do you lie awake in this way? This is your house: your wife is safe inside it, and so is your son who is just such a young man as any father may be proud of.’