Bend of bay

• bay window in HCE's bedroom → the 5th of 7 elements in a circuit of the bedroom → glass → Issy's mirror?

• Dublin Bay (see also swerve of shore).

• bend of bow → Odysseus is recognized in the Odyssey when he alone can bend and string his own bow → Strongbow, the Norman invader of Ireland → "Schwert offshore" - see swerve of shore).

• The Bending of the Bough: a play by George Moore, after Edward Martyn's The Heather Field.