As defined above, an infinite number of events exists in the real and imagined worlds. From the infinite chaotic jumble of things-that-happen, someone or some group, consciously or unconsciously, selects some events as somehow meaningfully related. The relation will be diachronic, explicitly or implicitly. This stringing together of events in some kind of relationship, basically chronological, is the construction of a story. Stories are composed of events, but a selection of events must