Re: Moon Palace

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[about Paul Auster's Moon Palace]

> How true.  It's a slow descent that's both frightening and incredibly
> fascinating at the same time.

Yes, Auster does some version of this decline with a character in nearly
every one of his novels.  The terrifying part about it is that while it is
so outrageously fictional (that is, you are quite aware of the fictional,
not factual, nature of what is happening), there is enough plausibility to
seize your interest.

I suspect that anyone who has lived on the edge of either poverty or
madness can appreciate that decline.  I know I can, on both counts.

--tim o'connor

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