Boomeringstroms

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  • boomerang: a wooden weapon or instrument most closely identified with Australian Aborigines
    • Note that Austrians don't like to be confused with Austrialians, and Joyce manages to put two allusions to both countries into two neighbooring words
  • Strom: (German) stream
  • boom: (Dutch) tree = strom (Czech)
  • maelstroms: whirlpools
  • booming storms: → cf Rose's emendation of Assiegates to Assiegales
  • boomeringstroms: may refer to the River Liffey and the fact that it flows over the end of the book, to continue flowing at the beginning with the word "riverrun". Thus it has the signification of a river flowing in a boomerang-like motion.