Power trumps recreation

Despite his apparent focus on the importance of recreation for the sake of gaining clarity or some sort of grasp on his past, I think that the evidence in Remainder indicates that the narrator actually holds control to be more important.
On pg 158, he discovers that his hired piano player has been playing a recording instead of playing live. The recording is a reproduction of his playing, just as his playing is a reproduction of the original player's playing. At first it seems possible that the problem is that he is trying to insert a reproduction of a reproduction and that the extra layer is the source of concern. This theory is debunked however, just a few pages later when he requests that a model be built of his little compound. This of course is a reproduction of a reproduction as well, but because he commanded it to be built it seems to serve some purpose for him, even to the extent of distracting his attention from the full-scale model that he has built around him.
The importance of power to the whole scheme becomes apparent when he begins moving his little action figures around in the model and then calls Naz, who he instructs to direct the movements of the actors in the full scale model in such a way as to play out the fantasy that he creates in the smaller model. The fact that he uses Naz as an intermediary to exercise this control is further evidence that his problem with the piano player does not stem with his introduction of another layer, but with the subversion of his orders. He himself introduces another layer, not only with his small model of the larger recreation but his use of Naz to exercise his control introduces another layer, even within the exercise of power that is of ultimate importance to him.