Mr. Kaplan's spirited efforts to channel his subject's point of view can result in some speculative scenes, which make the reader race to the book's endnotes in an attempt to identify possible source material.
The process tempts speculative investors to enter the scene, and their often "predatory" acquisition patterns complicate city planning and redevelopment efforts.
"The scene used to be dominated by speculative attacks - people being at the wrong place at at the wrong time, but it was nothing personal," Mr Emm told the BBC.
There's already a well-documented link between the postwar classical and pop scenes; more intriguingly, Max suggests a speculative link between Monteverdi's madrigals, Dirty Projectors (again) and A Sunny Day in Glasgow.
While much on social media was highly speculative, Di Stefano's fast and accurate tweets from the scene saw him put on 3,500 Twitter followers over 17 hours.
This speculative biopic of Jane Austen's love life features a scene in which the author's father, the Rev Mr Henry Austen, snuggles down to perform an act of oral love upon his lady wife, Jane's mother.
The aid workers and soldiers who rushed into the scene expected them too and confirmed our suspicions with speculative quotes.
But if Morgan's speculative and essentially static high-class political gossip – what you might call Pepys behind the scenes – acquires emotional resonance, it is largely thanks to the naturally majestic Mirren.
But behind the scenes, the G20 actually delivered on a set of "coherent conclusions" on the management of speculative capital flows in emerging markets that should not be overlooked, especially by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The director Michael Parva has staged this speculative drama at 59E59, not a mile from where a terrorist's bomb explodes in the play's first scene.
