Add boomerang quote

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@@ -548,6 +548,18 @@ candelabrum*
        Because it is Saint Peter's holy day.
        (Enter all the Friars to sing the dirge)
                [ Doctor Faustus and Other Plays, by Christopher Marlowe ]
+boomerang
+       Rincewind pulled himself up and thought about reaching for his
+       stick.  And then he thought again.  The man had a couple of spears
+       stuck in the ground, and people here were good at spears, because
+       if you didn't get efficient at hitting the things that moved fast
+       you had to eat the things that moved slowly.  He was also holding
+       a boomerang, and it wasn't one of those toy ones that came back.
+       This was one of the big, heavy, gently curved sort that didn't
+       come back because it was sticking in something's ribcage.  You
+       could laugh at the idea of wooden weapons until you saw the kind
+       of wood that grew here.
+               [ The Last Continent, by Terry Pratchett ]
 ~*jack*boot*
 *boot*
        In Fantasyland these are remarkable in that they seldom or