„Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.“

— Haruki Murakami

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„The whole plain was like a battlefield—or a farmyard. There was a reddish light and I jumped down, cramped and stiff with cold; a sliver of moon was piercing the low clouds and it looked like a gash from a knife and bathed the plain in a blood-red light. I stayed looking at it for a while. It terrified me.“
— Cesare Pavese
„The world of the grotesque is the darkness within us. Well before Freud and Jung shined a light on the workings of the subconscious, this correlation between darkness and our subconscious, these two forms of darkness, was obvious to people. It wasn't a metaphor, even. If you trace it back further, it wasn't even a correlation. Until Edison invented the electric light, most of the world was totally covered in darkness. The physical darkness outside and the inner darkness of the soul were mixed together, with no boundary separating the two. They were directly linked. Like this.“
— Haruki Murakami
„The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois
„England become a feeble-lighted Moon of America…“
— Anthony Burgess