The astronaut, stripped of all its ornamentation, is a man who has an opportunity to take in all of the world without any of human reality getting in his way. Something about drifting in outer space and watching a blue marble floating makes you want to put things in a cosmic perspective, even if the things themselves are too removed from cosmic speculation to make good on that connection. So it goes with the characters in this story. It's very easy to give in to sentimentalism with stuff like this, but DeLillo delivers, and how.
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