Bend of bay

• bay window (in HCE's 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.