Living in Spin

All the hard questions about human action are about what to include in a story what can be left out and how to characterize what gets included. A narrative selects from all the world's motions which ones are part of or relevant to an act and so narratives give us what narratives have already shaped: the relation is circular. Many narratives can be told of an act not all consistent. Some features of human action: - events off-stage determine what's happening on-stage; - many actions ``pass through'' motions in view; - an act can be changed after the fact; - action presupposes language; - what an act is can be highly ambiguous; - we judge acts (and narratives) because we have a stake in them.