Total Eclipse

When I first read Annie Dillard's "Total Eclipse" my initial reaction was basically wondering why everyone was being so dramatic about this natural event. When Dillard described the scene as "From all the hills came screams. A piece of sky beside the crescent sun was detaching." I could only think that the people watching this event most certainly couldn't be living in 1979, they would have known that a total solar eclipse is simply the moon passing between the sun and the earth obstructing the view of the sun from some parts of the earth. But then I started to understand that sometimes regardless of all logic and knowledge, things happen that are inexplicable and impossible to understand in logical terms. Epiphanies in the most logical sense are simply the firing of synapses and receptors in your brain right? But what I got out of Dillard is the importance of letting go of logic sometimes, understanding that regardless of what you KNOW about an eclipse, it still FEELS scary, and regardless of what you know about the functions of your brain you still must be able to feel something in order to have an epiphany.