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Singer is very good at evoking the palimpsest imprints of his characters' layered lives in a way that gives them more modernist complexity than his rather conventional conception of character and plot might otherwise have allowed for.
The fearless Cameron Diaz turned the role of Lottie in Being John Malkovich into a miracle, but its conception, and that of Catherine Keener the emasculator, was based on a tried-and-true and rather juvenile male fantasy (or so my sources tell me).
The fact that Tarzan is really an English lord--Lord Greystoke, to be precise--was central to Burroughs' conception of his character.
Conventional literary history says that the novel came into its own in the 18 th century, alongside individual rights and a modern conception of marriage.
The hierarchical conception of cortex here goes all the way down to primary motor cortex (the neocortical area most directly associated with motor output).