But Murakami keeps returning to the song Paper Moon, where the paper moon of the title is made real by love and belief. “What kind of reality mimics fictional creations?” Tengo asks himself, referencing his own writing. This occurs shortly after he decides to look for Aomame, and, although Fuka-Eri suggests that his perception of the two moons is related only to writing Air Chrysalis with her, it seems also to represent his connection with the woman he has always loved but previously made no effort to locate. When he opens his eyes, he sees “another moon in the sky”: “…the moon – standing out against the sky, about three quarters full…Like him, Aomame was staring at the moon in broad daylight, still gripping his hand, her face deadly serious.” In Book Two, remembering again the one time they have met, Tengo pictures “Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.” Two moons in the sky have already been identified by Aomame as a facet of 1Q84: This follows a discussion with his lover about the moon after he tells her that the novel he is writing is set in a world with two moons, an idea he has borrowed from Air Chrysalis. “With his eyes closed, Tengo could not be sure which world he belonged to.”
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