Some of the fears, to be sure, were not fictive.
For writing that's not fictive, that means fidelity to documentable reality; yet the best of it can only be done when the writer has an imagination as free as any novelist, playwright, or poet.
When real-life people enter the frame – Sergei Rachmaninoff tending his garden, Bette Davis sleeping with Dudley Smith – the paradoxical effect is to remind us that this story is not real; the fictive spell is broken, not bound, as it is with Tolstoy's historical figures.
Acting himself, he is not himself, but a fictive, specious other.
And that which makes no sense to the common understanding surely is not required by any fictive notions of law or even by the most sentimental attitude toward criminals.
This weakening of fictive reality is not compensated for by our meetings with the young Vetinari as a junior member of the Assassins Guildd, or the urchin Nobby as a police informer, or the dead-rat salesman Dibbler before he got his slogan of "Cut-me-own-throat".
Moreover, we suspect that courtship song representation at the level of second-order neurons involves multiple neuronal cell types and solely activating aPN1 neurons is not sufficient to mimic a fictive courtship song stimulus.
The authors studied bistability in relation to fictive motor bursts – which is not exactly a well-defined behavior, in particular since the activity is also fictive.
Arrows indicate fictive breaths where cervical output is not matched by lumbar output.
The paradigm here is not continuity but discontinuity, expressed in the explicit opposition of "fictive" versus "real" and the implicit opposition of adolescence versus adulthood.
