Just a quick shout out to America's favorite author in translation. Why am I so presumptuous as to believe he'd ever read these words? Because "Man in the Dark" is Auster's private obsessions writ large, my friends -- His fascination with authorial websites, the puff pieces and pans you find on them etc. I have no doubt that my ridicule of sweater boy was THE GALVANIZING INSPIRATION for his latest novel. (Which novel is for me a great disappointment, my metric-loving brothers and sisters, because it's actually •good•!). Proofread your little pearls before you post, mes amis, for Brooklyn-born Paul Auster stays up to the wee hours reading every last one of them!