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Show -225- never enough. The mystery remains, but i t has been altered by xrhat we have come to know about i t . Yet i t remains fearful." The Professor read these notes in the hope of finding some springboard that xrould launch him into his chapter in the next morning's xrriting session. In fact, it distracted him, because he saxr that these notes, although he approved of them, xrere incomplete. They said nothing about - or only hinted a t - the different responses demanded by the txro modes of experience. He picked up a ballpoint pen that had been lying beside the txro pieces of paper, turned one of the notes over to the vacant side, and wrote: "The response to a tragic situation is primarilly emotional, to a comic situation, i n t e l l e c t u a l ." Then he underlined the word, "primarily." A "What a r e you doing?" his wife asked. The Professor picked up his drink and took a sip of i t. "Just looking a t some notes for tomorrow," he said. His wife sighed, but said nothing. The Professor's thoughts returned to his project. He found himself attempting to imagine earliest man, waking into consciousness as a person dissolves into a dream. He picked up his pen again and xrrote: Chaos! When I think of i t , I think of that disorderly mass of material with which God worked xrhen he began his creation. Chaos i t must have been for that early man xrho f i r st glimpsed t h i s very real terror behind or xrithin the very world |