Moon at Half Past Noon

This project is an evolving epistolary cycle in verse, tracing an impossible conversation between two lonely teenagers separated by forty-five years.

Darvish, a intellectually precocious boy in 1980s India, endures a silent, patriarchal household. Zoya, an extroverted yet deeply isolated girl in 2025, navigates a world of digital connection and emotional scarcity. Both suffer from a profound deprivation of love and authentic witness.

This series, anchored by “Two Solitudes, One Empty Table“ and Darvish and Zoya: Marginalia.

“Principia Solitudinis” explores a central, haunting premise: that profound loneliness, when articulated with absolute precision, becomes a transmissible signal.

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(A document of absolute zero)

I. System Parameters

Recovered from the Chandigarh Public Library, 1981.
Fundamentals of Physics, Vol. II.
Paper has undergone acid-catalyzed hydrolysis (pH 4.5).
Marginalia in H-grade pencil,
pressure applied to indent three subsequent pages.
Ambient state: 98% humidity.
Sensory baseline: frying mustard oil.

II. The Revised Lexicon

Kinetic Anchor (n):
The father’s armchair.
A point of infinite mass in the living room.
Light (and conversation) enters its event horizon
but cannot escape.

Entropy (Domestic):
The specific rate at which a mother’s youth
is converted into potato peels and silence.

Vector of Avoidance:
The precise degree of eye-contact required
to acknowledge a presence
without initiating a dialogue.
θ ≈ 3.2°.

III. Field Notes: The Chandigarh Observations

Location: The Kitchen Threshold
Observed the “Mil” (Mother-in-law-second)
in its volatile state.
Not merely a unit of time—
a unit of pressure.
P = F/A
Where F is the weight of tradition
and A is the surface area
of a woman’s autonomy.
Observation: The pressure is currently
sufficient to liquefy stone.

Location: Sector 17 Plaza
The “Cricket Boys” exhibit Brownian Motion.
Their movement is random, joyful,
oblivious to sidewalk friction.
I am Laminar Flow—
predictable, smooth,
terrified of creating a vortex
that might draw attention.

IV. Advanced Formulae
(The Calculus of the Unseen)

Let Ψ be the probability density
of “Becoming.”
In this house,
the wave function never collapses.
We exist in Quantum Superposition:

| We are a family. |
| We are three strangers sharing a floor plan. |

Both are true until a guest knocks.
Then, the wave function collapses
into a “performance.”

Finding:
The energy required to maintain
the “performance” is
E = mc²,
where m is the mass
of the secrets kept.

V. Boundary Condition: The Roof Ledge

Fragment 31
(penciled over a diagram
of a Heat Engine)

The city is a heat sink.
It absorbs the day’s frustrations
but radiates nothing back
but a low-frequency hum.

This ledge is the experimental chamber
for the phase change.

I calculate the energy required:
E = mc²
where m is the mass of the performance.
The result exceeds local
containment capacity.

U = mgh
The h (height) is twenty feet.
The m (mass) is negligible.
The g (gravity) is the only force
in this universe
that is truly, reliably constant.
The only thing that pulls.

VI. Final Transmission
(The Singularity)

To the Auditor—

You think you are reading
a book about physics.
You are reading a Phase Change.

I am the ice becoming steam
without ever being water.
Bypassing the “liquid” phase of life—
the messy, flowing, social part—
going straight from frozen
to gone.

The pencil marks you see
are not “deviations.”
They are Escape Velocity.

If you solve the equations
in the margins,
you won’t find the answer
to the problem in the text.

You will find the coordinates
of where I went.

—D. (The Observer)
(The Escaped)