Through Lesley's eyes, we witness Coward's tantrums and a certain grandiosity that blurs the line between the personality he invented for himself and the characters he invented for the stage.
There is something deeply contradictory about Walter Mischel — a psychologist who spent decades critiquing the validity of personality tests — inventing the marshmallow task, a simple test with impressive predictive power.
Chip Smith, for instance, another invented personality, ate only white food; Clark never wore socks and reportedly outfitted his New York apartment with lawn furniture.
Within this tiny elite group, BB King ranks second only to the late Louis Armstrong, who not only charmed the world with his jovial, winning personality but virtually invented the concept of the jazz soloist, and on whose broad shoulders all successors stood.
Told by Orne that multiple personality disorder patients usually had at least three personalities, Bianchi promptly invented another one called "Billy".
Well, aren't we just two peas in a long-winded, Russian pod?" A bond will subsequently form based upon the fictitious life that these two invented personalities could share.
Latinus was a shadowy personality who was perhaps invented to explain the origin of Rome and its relations with Latium.
Most famously, Mr. Bloom has declared: "Shakespeare essentially invented human personality as we continue to know and value it.
Equally overlooked is the fact that psychological theories have done Americans great harm for more than a century, whether invented by personality theorists or testing companies.
In 1999, the artist, actor, and composer John Lurie invented a personality: Marvin Pontiac, the musically gifted son of a man from West Africa and a Jewish woman from New Rochelle, New York.
Hotchner's view of Hemingway is true, while everyone else's is "mythical": "The more our friendship grew, the more I realised that the stories that had circulated about his gruff, pugnacious personality were a myth invented by people who didn't know him but judged him by the subjects that he wrote about".
