Montaigne was not a novelist - the novel was being invented elsewhere at the time - but it was inevitable that his idiosyncratic authorial voice would eventually be wedded to stories, long or short, and that, say, Laurence Sterne would pop up, followed by a long line of fictive autobiographers, diarists, explorers of consciousness, existentialists and solipsists.
In this case, it's our relationship with words and images and the fine line between the real and the fictive, the actual and the simulated.
Under the auspices of a fictive label, "Club Negro," he has issued a line of satiric mock-commodities for black golfers.
A play about a Kondoleon play in indefinitely protracted progress, "Saved or Destroyed," which is now being given its world premiere, is a rich, Pirandello-esque exercise that blurs the lines between actors and their roles, between fictive and real worlds.
Set in fictive Heartlake City (and supported by a $40 million marketing campaign), the line features new, pastel-colored, blocks that allow a budding Kardashian, among other things, to build herself a cafe or a beauty salon.
The line is a reminder of how far Summertime is a fictive construct.
Mr. McGill, an African-American artist who plays golf, has come up with a funny line of satiric mock-commodities for black golfers under the fictive label "Club Negro".
(The last line is a diminished echo of Baudelaire's "Invitation to the Voyage," to a fictive land where there is nothing but order and beauty).
In line with their behavioral differences, f-learners and TD-learners also showed different patterns of brain activations related to fictive and reward prediction errors (Fig. 4c,d, and Supporting Information Tables S9 S12).
