This book is brilliant. I'm still trying to figure it all out much in the same way that I sit on my couch trying to figure out a David Lynch movie like Mulholland Drive. There is just so much to wrap my head around that it becomes a little mind-boggling.

If my idea is correct, then the title of this book is dead-on. It takes three bodies to create an eclipse and we see this motif of "three" over and over in the novella. I think that the main character, Claudius, ran away from his abusive father one night and got hit by a car.

Because of brain damage, he's in a facility where a doctor treats him for his "craziness". He lives out his life in his mind hoping that someone will reach out to him because he is very alone...drifting through space. And this is the story that Mr. Pagel tells us. He makes us think that the protagonist is an astronaut but I think it's all in the boy's head.

If I am completely wrong about this then I'm completely wrong. But I still enjoyed the read. But yeah...this book is a mind-bender and well written.