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If we want to study the everyday mind, we can begin by turning to the literary mind exactly because the everyday mind is essentially literary. (7)

Story is a basic principle of mind. Most of our experience, our knowledge, and our thinking is organized as stories. The mental scope of story is magnified by projection—one story helps us make sense of another. The projection of one story onto another is parable...We interpret every level of our experience by means of parable. (Preface)