Prompted

In the printed text of the Norton lecture series, "Six walks in the fictional woods," Umberto Eco writes about fictional time among other things. He differentiates between story time, discourse time and reading time.

Reading time is rather obvious, how long it takes for the reader to read about the event described. Discourse time is the "linguistic expression" of the event. Discourse time can take five pages to describe the firing of a gun or one sentence. Story time can be seen as the lapse in "real world time" for the event to take place.

Pick an event, fictional, real, autobiographical, borrowed, microscopic, whatever. Rewrite the event in a couple of different ways to play with discourse time.