All's fair in vanessy

• all is fair in love and war (proverbial)

• all is vanity → Ecclesiastes 1.2: "Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity"

• Vanity Fair: a year-long fair in John Bunyan's allegorical novel Pilgrim's Progress, established by Beelzebub, Apollyon and Legion in the town of Vanity

• Vanity Fair, a Novel without a Hero: a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Vanity Fair may have no hero, but it features two heroines: the virtuous Amelia Sedley and the scheming Becky Sharp → Issy's twin personalities

• vanity mirror: Issy's mirror
  • "Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?"

• Inverness: the location of Macbeth's castle and the scene of Duncan's murder in Shakespeare's Macbeth
  • the three witches of Macbeth → Issy and her two personalities

• Inver: bay, inlet → bay window → this, the fifth of seven clauses in this paragraph, corresponds to "bend of bay" in the first paragraph → the 5th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom

• Vanessa: Jonathan Swift's name for Hester Vanhomrigh, one of his two mistresses → Vanessy
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake