In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in
each blank.
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total
comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between
them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even
though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him - for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or
possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.