Eclipse
I missed Dar Williams (alas! the first time in over two years, I think), but I saw the total lunar eclipse from Bernal Hill. If I were looking for a literary device, I would pass back in time to the solar eclipse of May 10, 1994, and the lunar eclipse of January 20, 2000, and describe all the things which happened to me as a result of each eclipse.
On top of Bernal Hill, over a hundred people gathered, and little children ran back and forth.
Boy: I want to look at the town!
Boy 2: It's a country, not a city. We're so high up we can see the whole country.
Boy: We live in a city, not in a country.
Boy 2: We live in a country too, and we can see the country from here.
Girl: Do you even know how big a country is?
The skeptical girl was the first person on the whole hilltop to spot the moon, quite some time after it had risen. (The fog and the sunlight made it hard to make out at first.)
I wonder if people in D.C. went out to the Ellipse to watch the eclipse.
