I imagined the painting bellow by Balthus while I was reading this chapter. The painting and the chapter use the same provocation, the same symbol of the “pussens” lapping the milk. Very erotic! Everything about the chapter was dirty. The passage when Leopold goes to buy the pork kidneys, and sees the girl buying sausages made me laugh out loud. “They like them sizeable. Prime sausage. O please, Mr. Policeman, I’m lost in the wood.”
The juxtaposition between Leopold and Steven is nice. Especially because of Steven is so not erotic. For example in the last chapter where he says to himself, “the froeken, bone a tout faire, she said. tous les messieurs. Not this monsieur, I said. Most licentious custom. Bath a most private thing… Green eyes, I see you. Fang, I feel. Lascivious people.”

But besides the erotic, this chapter has all to do with glutton. He is eating constantly throughout the chapter, but not just eating. Eating not to stop hunger but to taste food. Bloom experiences, in this chapter nearly all the earthly pleasures.