Re: Tangent about R,O!
Well, the words we hear from Fringie's own mouth describing his own philosophy are pretty damning.

That's actually an example of where R,O! felt hyperreal rather than real, along with the crazy Eyes Wide Shut-style party scenes and whatnot; Fringie sounds like a psychopathic version of what a feminist thinks of as the unconscious social forces that motivate pickup artists, not like what an actual pickup artist would say to justify or defend himself. He's like Ellsworth Toohey in The Fountainhead or the "anarchists" in The Man Who Was Friday or Satan in Paradise Lost -- someone who actually buys into the protagonist's belief system and consciously chooses to embody the bad-guy side of that belief system ("God exists and is the source of all light and good and I choose to defy him"; "I understand that normal social mores stultify and wither the independence of the creative mind and I want to stultify and wither it"; "Girls are pretty and boys are gross; thus, male rape of the female is a nihilistic celebration of the entropic reality of grossness triumphing over prettiness"). The sort of guy who doesn't really exist but Christians or Objectivists are always afraid might. Etc.

A many-years-later deconstructionist take on that that shows that the Fringie rant is more Allen's take on who he thinks Fringie is than Fringie's take on what he thinks of himself might be interesting, though I don't know if that's where you want to go with it.