Once we accept the 'why' as inevitable, we just start inventing and concocting narratives and plans to address the 'how' until something sticks and we're placated.
In an effort to grapple with a chaotic and threatening world, Mr. DeLillo's characters have always looked for ways to order their lives — imposing paranoid conspiracy theories on events around them; indulging obsessions that give them a prism by which to view the cosmos; or, most frequently, doing what their creator does, concocting narratives to connect the dots.
Ultimately, he agreed to write story lines for the most famous superhero in history on the condition he could also produce 30 books about long-forgotten DC Comics characters, allowing him full creative license to concoct narratives and a new city in which to stage them.
To bring that seemingly straightforward premise to the screen, Mr. Crowe concocted a narrative that darts around the couplings and uncouplings of the principals, played by Matt Dillon, Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley and Jim True.
A poet, an author, a singer or a playwright can concoct a narrative of place, but only an architect can create a narrative of place and give the city new physical resources with stories and languages that everyone can share and enjoy.
But concocting a narrative out of found objects can be forced and awkward.
Given the vast timescale over which humans have interacted with the English landscape, it seems plausible that archaeologists of the distant future will concoct some narrative to unify these works with the stones themselves, perhaps one based on the astronomical alignment of the tunnel with the decayed footings of some vast M-shaped golden arches that were mysteriously erected some decades later.
In this case Mr. Boyle has concocted a complicated narrative structure to frame Wright's story: the book we are reading has supposedly been written by a Japanese apprentice to Wright named Sato Tadashi, who tells the architect's story backward in time (like the Kaufman-Hart play and Sondheim musical "Merrily We Roll Along") and from the points of view of the women who loved him.
"The simple truth is that Appellants' incentive story is a fiction, a post hoc narrative concocted to provide a colorable explanation for the otherwise risible notion that Congress would have wanted insurance markets to collapse in States that elected not to create their own Exchanges," Edwards wrote.
Robert Horton, the communications officer for Alabama's Department of Corrections, called the whole thing a "nonfactual" narrative concocted by inmate advocacy groups.
