What is the authors claim in man in the arena

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by  He restates his argument for the doer almost as eloquently as the famous  Review: Top Sci Fi Author and Edgar Rice Burroughs scholar Richard Logoff

Explanation:

- "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."