Frantumaglia: bits and pieces whose origin is difficult to pinpoint, and which make a noise in your head, sometimes causing discomfort. Domesticating the truth: taking overused expressive paths; betraying the story out of laziness, out of compliance, out of convenience, out of fear. It has become natural to think of the author as a particular individual who exists, inevitably, outside the text. […] Yet, if we simply remove that individuality from the public eye, […] the text has more in it than we imagine.
