My greatest debts are owed to family-to my mother, Joyce, for her reading; to my father, Thomas, for his orating; to my brother, Malcolm, for his humoring; and to my aunt, Mary Ruth, for her caring. I also wish to thank Jenna Reasor and Maxwell Gantner for their savage love of mimetic art. Lastly, to the faculty and graduate students of the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin goes my utmost esteem. καὶ ἐμοὶ ταῦτα συνεύχου: κοινὰ γὰρ τὰ τῶν φίλων.