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References to the Moon in Paul Austers Moon Palace
References to the moon in Paul Austers Moon Palace * Frequently dealing with the moon * Already at the beginning the moon is mentioned with the first Landing on the moon * page 7 line 1: * “It was the summer that men first walked on the moon.“ Introduction of the leitmotif; outlines the time in which the story approximately takes place * page 18/ 19: * “Moonlight Moods“;.“Moon Men“ * page 38 line 21- 25: * “...Radiant Diana, I thought...“ Diana is the Roman god of the moon. The male counterpart is Sol(? -omon) who is the god of the sun. * page 39 line 51- 52: * “Perhaps the word moon had changed for me after I saw men wandering about its surface.“ Marco learns that the moon is reachable and so is also his aim (to find his identity). * page 77 line 50 - 53: * "... they (Kitty`s visits) were natural events, and they carried the same force and inevitability as the weather, the motions of the planets, or the light that came filtering through the window at three o`clock every afternoon ..." This means that Kitty`s visits are regularly because the circulation of the planets always happens in the same succession. * page 85 line 48 - 50: * " ... the point was to accept things as they were, to drift along with the flow of the universe ..." This passage is linked to Marco`s life in the parc when he didn`t make any effort to reach something. He only wanted to keep on living just as the planets are rotating without being influenced by any other subject than nature. * page 86 line 29 - 31: * " ... within the next ten days or so, I believe I put on eighteen or twenty pounds, and by the end of the month I was beginning to resemble the person I had once been ..." Marco`s siuation is compared with the moon: After a certain time of change the moon turns into his initial condition. * page 100 line 32- 33: * “The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.“ This is

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