Reading a novel or watching a movie from an authorial perspective you are able to simultaneously identify with every character in a conflict of incident, or rather, to identify freely and in turn with each character. You do not hold on to a critical distance, you enter fully but are indifferent as to which perspective to take up, allowing the history to unfold or blossom before you in its fulness. In life the same gesture is also available, but complicated because the sought after fulness requires you, at the same time, to play yourself without any restraint or false 'even-handedness'.