User blog comment:Zahard/Part II: Review, Summary, and Questions - 21/04/2012/@comment-4076672-20120424123421/@comment-4076672-20120425131748

@Zahard: Well, one of the reasons why I tend to dislike such theories is 'cos they instantly kill the story. Phantaminum is supposedly an exis, a being which is god or close to being one. That implies having awareness of many or all of the events within a certain distance around him and so on.

Now, consider that a character who can end the TOG story if he wants to(as SIU has mentioned), allowing himself to be thrown around like a paper bag(betrayal by Rachel, ending up with FUG) and so on. And suggesting his memory or abilities might have been sealed, only cheapens his characterisation.

Also, SIU's writing so far in TOG, implies that almost no one or no one can leave the Tower. Even if one were to know the location of an exit, it might not be possible to get out. I'm basing this on the assumption that exiting might be even more difficult than entering the Tower. And I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people who entered the Tower a long time ago(long before Zahard's rule) died while trying to leave. These are likely rules SIU put in place to highly restrict people within the Tower from interacting outside the Tower(and vice versa).