NPPF Comm 2: Dr. Notebook

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>  If the author wan'ts to
> sick in his identity, it should go further than the act.  It should add
> something. <<<
> 
> It adds a wink and a smile.
> 
> Hitchcock's cameos are delightful.

But I think it's kinda ironic that Nabokov, at least in his critical
writings and the like, privileges the objective author,  that is, the
author who is no where present in the text, has disappeared or is merely
standing in the shade of the apple tree paring his fingernails, shedding
his scarf skin like an innocent serpent, but he is so obviously creeping
on every  page.