ClearDarkSky.com, a Web site for astronomers, publishes state-by-state lists of public and private observation spots and an astronomer's forecast.
"I was very swayed by the terraces," she said, which used to be private observation decks for the bank president and bear plaques telling the history of the Battle of Brooklyn.
And there's the thought-bubble inner life of the characters (Wolfe has patented a surpassingly annoying typographic device for conveying this – six sets of colons either side of a character's private observation, ie: "::::::This place is a real piece of work!::::::").
(Private observation: in the late 1970s, I would periodically debate lawyer Antonin Scalia before bar and business groups on the issue of corporate governance -- he would charmingly and confidently always oppose expanding shareholder and Board prerogatives).
Ada had been estranged from her mother for 13 years; sorting out the house brings back a flood of memories, while six-year-old Pepper, "lucid and morbid", soaks up her new surroundings, and makes private, perceptive observations to herself.
This finding may also reflect the belief that planned meetings and access to multiple providers are easier in the public sector than in the private sector, observations that were mentioned by participants in our previous qualitative study.
A commenter undergoing treatment for a medical condition he would rather not discuss with family and friends has good reason to keep his observations private, even if he has valuable experiences to share on a story about his illness.
It recalls Njabulo S Ndebele's objection to South Africa's literature of "spectacle" in the 1980s ("Rediscovery of the Ordinary"), and Gerald Moore's longing for more "private and particular observation" from Francophone African writers in the 1960s ("Towards Realism in French African Writing").
Then he returns to his own journal to compose his entries: sometimes confessional, more often dry private jokes or koanlike observations on life.
