>Those of us in a rural area of 100% totality thought it was magic. Pure, real, magic. Hell, I saw it at a library in small town SC and it was still primal and

>Those of us in a rural area of 100% totality thought it was magic. Pure, real, magic. Hell, I saw it at a library in small town SC and it was still primal and surreal. The birds got quiet, the crickets started chirping. You really felt a direct link back to prehistory and you understood why it affected ancient people the way it did. There a small, tickling sense in the back of your mind that what you're seeing is profoundly wrong. The closest I can describe it is low grade existential terror, in the biblical sense of awe.