My fictional view of the period, my sense of its unreality had been, like any impotence, a psychologically painful experience.
There was grappling going on in the stands, too, in the fictional view of Don DeLillo's "Underworld".
They have a fictional view that the "successes" are still what they were in 2000 and they just aren't.
The novel execution aside, things captured by the fictional Street View car are tellingly not always as positive as the track's three-letter title implies.
The book was dense with science-fictional thought experiments, all urging a shift toward a more impersonal, non-physical, and selfless view of human life.
But they weren't, in the fictional Zuckerberg's view, empowering others; they were empowering themselves.
NEAR the end of "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole", a fictional adolescent's view of Britain in the early 1980s, a photograph of the prime minister is desecrated: someone breaks into the headmaster's office and scrawls "Three million unemployed" on Mrs Thatcher's cleavage.
Hislop hasn't of course been into Famagusta – no one may, even now – but has stood near the barbed wire and imagined what life was like there, then and now, with her usual gift for presenting bits of history most of us are unfamiliar with from a fictional point of view.
At a masked ball in Harschmort House are two individuals who will become Celeste's allies in bringing down the cabal, Cardinal Chang and Abelard Svenson, to both of whom the fictional point of view is handed from time to time.
IT is the question furtively whispered at cocktail parties, bandied about the hallways of Manhattan's private schools and grumbled about behind bedroom doors in Park Avenue prewar duplexes: Who is Mrs. X? From the fictional point of view, Mrs. X is the piquant central character in "The Nanny Diaries," a novel from St . Martins Press that arrived in bookstores about two weeks ago.
One of the biggest challenges, they go on, is teaching the machine to understand what's interesting from a fictional point of view – differentiating, say, between 'What if there was a chair with five legs?' and 'What if there was a little dog who learned how to speak?'.
