Isaac

• Isaac: son of Abraham, second of the patriarchs and father to Jacob and Esau. Isaac was fooled into blessing Jacob, the younger son (who had the aid of his mother, Rebecca), instead of Esau, the elder son, when Jacob wore a goatskin on his arms and neck in order to appear as his more hairy brother.

• Issac Butt: Irish Protestant who began the Home Rule Party which was later led by Charles Stewart Parnell. (see buttended)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• eye-sick: i.e. blind

• Parnell and Butt as Shem and Shaun → Shem and Shaun are associated with the bedroom door → this, the fourth of seven clauses in this paragraph, corresponds to "swerve of shore" in the first paragraph → 4th of 7 elements in a second circuit of HCE's bedroom

• Isaac Bickerstaff, a persona/pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift