Creative Freedom in Nabby and the Pynch

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    >>It's not a mere academic question, the narrator enigma in _Pale
    Fire_, it's not a quibble. It goes to the heart of the mystery
    within the fathomlessly refractive mirror-world of the novel, a
    question about the nature of its design, of the design of creation
    itself.<<


http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=1085

Not sure of Rosenbaum's intention in the last line of the above 
paragraph. Is he speaking about the design of PF, or, openning it
up to include all human creation (or even Creation)? What does
"itself" refer back to, I guess I'm wondering.

The sequencing: "the design of creation" is challenging, in light
of the indefiniteness of whether or not he is referring to just
the design of PF, or a more generalizable notion of creation.

Creation as either a verb or noun, with a little or a big C, begs
the question of constraint, or the flipside, freedom. The Orwellian
dialectic comes briefly to mind, but is quickly supplanted by
Pynchon's comments in the Foreword regarding the ability of
characters to develop independently of their author's original
designs- not merely slaves, they.

I think one area of interesting comparison and contrast between
the two author's might be this notion of creative freedom.

respectfully