This life he had constructed himself, scheming, calculating and miscalculating.
He also spent time, he said, "mapping the moon" through a telescope he constructed himself out of "a cardboard tube and a couple of lenses".
The space, which he constructed himself, was minuscule, but it quickly became a place where artists, dealers and curators gathered to argue aesthetics over beers.
The first picture in "Periodical Photographs" shows Winters's desk, where he conceives each photograph, and the last is a vintage photo booth he constructed himself for a shoot.
Reinventing the presidency, Jackson constructed himself as a wielder of popular against institutional power, an outsider sent to Washington on a tide of populist resentment to keep unscrupulous insiders from taking the people's money and subverting their will.
"Where's the mashed potatoes?" Mr. Busuttil's own traps, which he constructed himself, are baited with tiny silver fish, and his bucket, an industrial size container that originally held potato salad, contains eight feisty crabs.
As it is, the corner suite goes to Baz Luhrmann, a faintly Gatsby-esque construct himself, who changed his name, fled his home and found wealth and fame as a Hollywood director.
Whatever the cause, this was a dramatic end to the dramatic life of one of the most colourful figures in modern Russian history.It was a life that Mr Berezovsky had constructed himself, scheming, calculating and miscalculating.
Wanting to understand him and how he chose to construct himself, I find my imagination responding, and this response — filling in where the historical record is empty — is very much like what it means to be a fiction writer.
