So, he says, “…I read myself as a narrative character, an authorship, who sometimes seems strange to me, and worthy of sardonic framing or dismissive meta-narrative….,”
O, don’t worry. You just want to imply some self-effacing postmodern plight. That was very well worn decades ago.
“So it goes for the conceptualist mind: a chronic sense of surreality.”
No, you actually love playing philological glyph.