The automatie attribution of meaning to things-or the failure to distinguish between them initially-is a characteristic of narrative, of myth, not of scientific thought. Narrative accurately captures the nature of raw experience. Things are scary, people are irritating, events are promising, food is satisf)ring--at least in terms of our basic experience. The modern mind, which regards itself as having transcended the domain of the magieal, is nonetheless still endlessly capable of"irrational" (read motivated) reactions. We fall under the spell of
