Boomeringstroms

• 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)

• Pummerin, the bell of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral, which was cast in 1705 from cannons captured in the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna.

• maelstroms: whirlpools

• booming storms: → cf Rose's emendation of Assiegates to Assiegales