In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1.