Total Eclipse Baby PDF

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Essay After diving into Annie Dillard and her concept of time, it seems that, at the very least, when she brings up time it is used as a descriptor for how it can seem so intangible yet so real. Time is a concept we may not fully understand, but we continue to live through it every day. This tangible formula we have generated for time has allowed us to apply methods of aid, and while we can narrow memories down to a certain period and place, we capture a truly specific moment in time when the place holds value to you. It seems that even though time continues to pass by, but the memories we hold from places we cherish are engraved within our minds forever. Annie Dillard brings up glaring at Mount Adams and can see the glow, yet as time passes, she states “that was the last sane moment I remember” (Dillard 5). Despite the continuous movement of time, she has created memories in the past that she can recall, but not justify due to its oddness. Furthermore, just like an eclipse, we can project an image (memory) we perceived somewhere, but all we carry as the time passes is a fragment of the very feeling we possess within the moment. Her statement about sane memories may indicate how maddening the march of time can be, for she brings up again, when looking back at the sun, that “it was going. The sun was going, and the world was wrong.” (Dillard 5). Her previous knowledge of the world is altered visually by the eclipse, and when saying the world is wrong is drawing towards how different the perspective has become. Being in a surreal moment such as this has led to time becoming nothing but a mere instance, and all that matters now is the present time in which Annie resides in. When looking back at the film and seeing Gary, she alarmingly states that, “Everything was lost… my mind was going out; my eyes were receding the way galaxies recede to the rim of space” (Dillard 5). While this may seem like a hallucination, she metaphorically means that her

reality has shifted to a completely new view, for her concept of space is altered by mesmerizing images. Nothing is what it seems almost, and it feels like she has shifted to a new place where she has never been before. When she talks about how Gary looks and says that it “was something I was remembering from centuries hence”, which sounds as if she her memories in time will last beyond the grave (Dillard 5)....