Obviously not in the sense of letters on a computer screen, but some sort of generalized novel complicated enough to support consciousness does seem like an obvious thought?  She seems to be replying as if she already knows that to not be true, though?

"No, I wasn't intending to import that aspect of novels from the analogy that used novels!  I just mean, are you, from your own perspective, inside a mysterious situation or a known one, with respect to this planet having nonredundant power lines."

Obviously not in the sense of letters on a computer screen, but some sort of generalized novel complicated enough to support consciousness does seem like an obvious thought?  She seems to be replying as if she already knows that to not be true, though?

"No, I wasn't intending to import that aspect of novels from the analogy that used novels!  I just mean, are you, from your own perspective, inside a mysterious situation or a known one, with respect to this planet having nonredundant power lines.  Like... the sort of mystery where there's enough room in it for the answer to be, 'There's aliens we didn't previously know about mind-controlling people', or the sort of sad but understandable situation where the aliens would be redundant because there's already a pretty good theory with no need for aliens."