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)

• Bummerin, the bell of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral

• maelstroms: whirlpools

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