I owe thanks to Dallas Dickinson, Katie Trapp, and Jeff Nunokawa for lending me books. Jeff was also a supportive advisor and an important catalyst to this project. The following people lent me much appreciated inspiration, encouragement, enthusiasm, or advice: my parents, Albert Raboteau, Michael Lentz and Mark Lewis (the ninety-somethings), Nick Meyer, Gillian Webster, and Dilshad Shahid. Thank you all.

I dedicate this thesis to my friends, old and new: too many to name, but infinitely dear, and to my brother and sister.

I am the ______ king.