Annie Dillard's classic Total Eclipse essay from 1982

[Tanuki]

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/536148/

Ever since it was first published in 1982, readers—including this one—have thrilled to “Total Eclipse,” Annie Dillard’s masterpiece of literary nonfiction, which describes her personal experience of a solar eclipse in Washington State. It first appeared in Dillard’s landmark collection, Teaching a Stone to Talk, and was recently republished inThe Abundance, a new anthology of her work. The Atlantic is pleased to offer the essay in full, here, until the day after the ‘Great American Eclipse’ on August 21.

-Ross Andersen

[samnsara]

1. i remember that eclipse.. i was a student at washington state university..

..we all gathered near the student union bldg. and watched it get dark then light again. So cloudy we couldn't even see the sun. I had more of a show when the volcano erupted and eviscerated the sun, the sky, the air...etc....