Moreover, the syllabus and grading criteria for the course in question and the case descriptions and personal histories of the fictive care recipient living in the apartment were provided.
Even the grownups had a fictive dog who lived alongside the real one: my wife's dog was a year-old baby she had loved and missed (she especially loved the early-morning off-leash hours in Central Park, when the dawn belongs to charging dogs and coffee-sipping owners); mine was a genial companion who enjoyed long walks and listening to extended stretches of tentatively composed prose.
The words sort of recede as you read them, or, maybe, our attention diverts from their wordness, to the "image" that appears in our head (although "image" is not quite right; it is something else going on up there), and suddenly — are we reading, or living "there" in that fictive moment?
The most immediate examples that came to mind were, of course, James Frey, the author of the best-selling "Million Little Pieces," in which he embellished details of his experiences as a drug addict, and J T LeRoy, the novelist thought to be a young West Virginia male prostitute who was actually the fictive alter ego of Laura Albert, a woman now living in San Francisco.
Living through those twenty-five yeand and then making a fictive world that had only pitfalls and misfortune would feel false.
Which works its way around to: For just as bakers must their loaves create and thespians put on their fictive acts, the ones who live in scorn shall always hate I'll from my shoulders shake their vile attacks.
Marian Sutro lives a rich fictive life, far from the curdled purlieus of Bond-dom – not least in the job she finds with the Franco-British Pacidealistic, an idealistic group, working for a sort of Crabbin in a dingy office on High Holborn.
Another variation is to introduce the fictive into the lives of real people.
The writer himself has even spent time as a film critic and his reviews for the London Evening Standard merely showed how cinema failed to live up to his own florid fictive universes.
The author alerts us, punctiliously, to the fact that what follows may taste of lived truth but prove to be merely fictive.
