When the narrator says he mined the brekkes books and magazines (lines 12) and refers to them as a printed trove (lines 23), he is comparing learning abd knowledge to things that are

c. barbarians with unexpected intelligence  

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."

the answer is sail boat won the race , and it was going 8 feet per   second