Heart

• Heart: River in northern United States, tributary to the Missouri River
• Know by heart: commit to memory
• The heart, along with "bloodvein", "vesles", "scarlet thread", "the core" (L. cor, Fr. couer, heart), "cushlas" (Gael. cuisle, pulse) suggests that the rivers in this chapter are rivers of blood recirculating through HCE's body. (This is explored thouroughly in John Bishop's Joyce's Book of the Dark).