/lit/ - Literature

I'm currently developing an art project related to the forthcoming total solar eclipse & negative theology.

I wonder if you have any literary depiction, reference etc. of eclipses you would like to share, maybe it will stimulate someone else's mind too. Since it is such a powerful event for the collective psyche it is interesting to see how it influenced/inspired other artists.

Etymology:
> Middle English: from Old French e(s)clipse (noun), eclipser (verb), via Latin from Greek ekleipsis, from ekleipein ‘fail to appear, be eclipsed’, from ek ‘out’ + leipein ‘to leave

And a beautiful simile from Flannery O' Connor, a syzygy between the Sun, Earth and the Moon (God, her Ego and God's presence):
> Dear God, I cannot love Thee the way I want to. You are the slim crescent of a moon that I see and my self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon. The crescent is very beautiful and perhaps that is all one like I am should or could see; but what I am afraid of, dear God, is that my self shadow will grow so large that it blocks the whole moon, and that I will judge myself by the shadow that is nothing.