In a special report, The New York Times Magazine had this to say about the eclipse: “On the morning of Aug. 21, the moon’s shadow will appear over the Pacific Ocean and move swiftly toward Lincoln Beach, Oregon, just south of Portland, making landfall at 10:16 a.m. local time. If the morning fog has lifted by then, and if the weather is clear, viewers will see something in the sky that most have never seen: a black hole where the sun should be, and around the edges sinuous flames radiating out in all directions.” The shadow then will move on…