V.V.(1): Body Parts

[Dedalus]

Has anyone else noticed the inordinate amount of references to various
and sundry body parts in section one of chapter one?  In a span of seven
pages, there are no fewer than twenty references:

---"barmaid with a ship's propeller tattooed on each buttock" (2)
---"one foot in the Grave anyway" (2)
---"Profane began to draw hearts, arrows through them" (3)
---"flexing their beer-carrying arms and practicing a hooker's sweet
smile" (3)
---"tiny grin" (3)
---"Ploy's teeth" (3)
---"the bicep with a Pentothal injection" (3)
---"kick officers in the teeth" (4)
---"Ploy, sitting crosslegged on his rack, sharpening his teeth" (4)
---"custom beer taps . . . in the shape of large breasts" (5)
---"Dewey Gland" (5)
---"an arm fell like a sack of spuds across his shoulder" (6)
---"a laugh formed by putting the tonguetip under the top central
incisors and squeezing
     gutteral sounds out of the throat" (6)
---"The Gut" (6)
---"nostrils unflared, eyebrows at dead center" (7)
---"Paola knew scraps . . . of all tongues" (7)
---"jarheads" (7)
---"widened eyes and gaping mouths" (8)
---"Paola was there, arm around his leg" (9)
---"Move your ass" (10)

                                   References taken from Perennial
Classics edition (1999)

Are these random references that hold little or no significance to the
whole work?  They don't seem to be used in any metaphorical manner like
typical *imagery*, and it doesn't seem to carry over into the following
sections.  But golly, there's lots o' dem body parts in dat section . .
.

Scratching his head,

Ded