I am moved by this latest instalment of DCL, more than that, a breath of fresh air lifts my spirits and gives me courage to continue. Fictional characters becoming conscious of their nature as fictional!
My essay, "The Hidden Legacy of The Red Book" (published by Thomas Arzt in 2015) is on a parallel track, where I explore the cultural consequences of such an “event” as recorded in the Red Book. I also wrote an essay based on a dream (2018) in which a sentence became self-conscious as such i.e. as a sentence.
Here is a link to it for our fellow travelers.
Its called "Angel of a New World": https://www.academia.