He has decided to go it on his own, to lay his fictional self to rest.

Actually, he can sympathize with that, even cheer on his programmed, fictional self.

During several events relating to the exhibition, Hatry or an actress she engaged would play the role of one or more of her fictional selves.

"You'll never be forgiven for your 'fun' of picturing Reagan through all these encounters with your fictional self," I told him.

"But it's not a fictional self," Morris insisted.

But in the end, the re-creation of that vision rested on the shoulders of the 11-year-old who would portray Mr. Grisham's fictional self.

Her work raises the interesting question of how much a fictional story about a fictional self can shed, and still remain a story about a vivid self.

It is the property of phenomenal selfhood that plays the most important role in creating the fictional self and the first person perspective.

In her autobiographical works, her fictional "self" learns how to listen to her own "old one", and gaining wisdom from it.

Richardson apparently felt that Streep might enjoy reading about her fictional self in the novel.