Introduction [excerpts] The current study involves a textual analysis of the trial transcripts from United States of America v. Charles Novak and Henry Ach. This methodology involves a systematic description and analysis of fantasy themes, or mythic stories, and underlying rhetorical visions, or interpretive themes about reality, contained in the prosecution's opening statements, summation, and rebuttal summation.... [Ernest G.] Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory (SCT)...