PART THREE
Ruling by Style: History and the Moderns
1900–1929

“Where do murderers go, man! Who’s to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?”

MELVILLE, Moby-Dick, “The Symphony”

“I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry, and time one livid final flame. What’s left us then?”

JOYCE, Ulysses