Bella Lugosi was an amazing actor, but what would have happened to him? Had he been stricken with madness, with schizophrenia? And what would his life have to do with Nero, Caligula, Nero s mother, and his uncle Claudius? What would all this have to do with a feminist congress that brings together two groups, conservative feminists and liberal feminists? As theories about violence are developed and dissected in this book, Eric, a young journalist, takes a trip to Dublin to gather his impressions of the Emerald Isle, and an architect breathes new life into an already hopeless city in the interior of St. Paul...