Monday, July 7th CLass

Is anything irrelevant?
Salutary = beneficial aspect

Frame story (the idea is exemplified by those Russian stacking dolls.)
http://www.answers.com/topic/frame-story
A frame story (also frame tale, frame narrative, etc.) is a narrative technique whereby a main story is composed, at least in part, for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories, each of which is a story within a story—or for surrounding a single story within a story.

C.G. Jung, theory of synchronicity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be 'synchronistic', the events must be related to one another temporally, and the chance that they would occur together by random chance must be very small.