References to the Moon in Paul Austers Moon Palace

References to the moon in Paul Austers lunation Palace * much dealing with the moon * Already at the beginning the moon is work forcetioned with the first landing place on the moon * rascal 7 cast 1 * It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. Introduction of the leitmotiv outlines the time in which the story rough takes place * scalawag 18/ 19 * bootleglight Moods. moon about Men * rogue 38 line 21- 25 * bright Diana, I thought Diana is the Roman beau ideal of the moon. The male counterpart is Sol(? -omon) who is the god of the sun. * page 39 line 51- 52 maybe the word moon had changed for me after I saw men wandering astir(predicate) its sur confront. Marco learns that the moon is reachable and so is withal his aim (to find his identity). * page 77 line 50 53 * they ( masss visits) were natural events, and they carried the homogeneous force and inevitableness as the weather, the motions of the planets, or the light that came filtering by dint of the window at three oclock every afternoon This performer that pools 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 ramble on along with the flow of the universe This going is linked to Marcos support in the parc when he didnt make some(prenominal) effort to reach something. He provided wanted to keep on aliveness just as the planets are rotating without creation influenced by any other yield than nature. * page 86 line 29 31 * within the next 10 days or so, I look at I put on cardinal or twenty pounds, and by the displace of the month I was beginning to gibe the person I had once been Marcos siuation is equald with the moon After a trusted time of change the moon turns into his sign condition. * page 100 line 32- 33 * The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the afterlife. This is a link to Marcos future. After 9 mon ths when he reads Nicola Teslas autobiography he finds the same sentence. * page 139 line 50- 54 * Marco is looking at a photo showing the moon but he isnt able to recognize the really meaning of the painting immediately. Marcos life is compared with this. * page 155 line 58- 60 The moon is a sign handsome orientation towards Marcos life. * page 252 line 30- 32 * Sol puts the origins of the Indians having saved magic Kepler from death to the moon. * page 255 line 56- 57 * The moon is a figure of wickedness and rabidness but it also reflects a vernal beginning. The earth around universal time resembles the surface of the moon. * page 302 line 11- 14 * Marcos real life starts when he is looking at the moon. Now, he has succeeded his invite for identity so he great deal re- enact how important it is to have a point of orientation in your life. in one case Thomas Effing has tried to teach Marco this. Moon Palace * He lives as homeless person person in the central common his rescue through meeting Kitty Wu Moon as a symbol for hope and change * eatery Moon Palace a Chinese eating place Moon palace as the human body of the misconception that Columbus thought America was china * There are three stories in the book and each one is finally the same each generation repeats the same mistakes of the previous generation * Moon landing place at the very beginning * Marco doesnt share the enthusiasm of the most American people including the president p5/1 * Apollo project.Marco is unfavourable of the M. L. because it stands for mans Hybris to break into Gods celestial orbit * Marco talks about Moon Landings in Literature when he first meets Kitty p50/16 * Moon * Goddess of love and lunacy p43/5 * Dark image * solely also a kind of new frontier (Columbus-the West-the moon) * Landscape of the moon is standardized to the one of the American West p45/1 * moon is a lifeless rock and roll * loneliness just like in the west * Moon Palace * Esp. The northeast sig n of a Chinese Restaurant Marco sees from his apartment (once really existed) p. 5/11 * A painting called Moonlight by Ralph Blakelock p162/20 * The moon is above a peaceful scene (Indians/Nature/Frontier) * Associated with harmony between man and nature * Moon stands for constant change which determines Marcos life and future * (see the end of the novel, when Marco stares at the moon * compare Effings view (p182) the moon offers you a heraldic bearing in Life/Orientation * Solomon barber & the moon * In Keplers store the people there were born on the moon * Barbers bald head/his face reminds at the moon