"I don't wish to argue Natasha anymore"I was addressing the List of
course, and among them, the readers who have some interest in VN's
texts (!) and especially this one (for after all, an hitherto
unpublished text is quite an event for VN's readers).
"the dead person or planet"is precisely the extra textual self who
cannot be described directly, but only en creux -like an intaglio
engraving- through the different vegetable spinning around him. Hugh
Person is one of these vegetable, like other characters of VN's stories
who belong to the same "family". As if the nucleus of an atom could be
known only through his electrons. I don't know to what extent VN was
familiar with physics but he could borrow apt similes to this science
to describe beautifully how his creations work
Laurence Hochard