The Illicit Happiness Of Other People - Plot & Excerpts
He has searched her face for the hint of a moustache, he has imagined her naked and laughed at her shame, he has imagined her on the commode though he does not really believe she would ever do anything as cheap as that. But all his methods have failed and he now accepts that he must quietly suffer his adoration. ‘Do you know about the sun and the moon?’ he asks to show her his range of interests. They are in her room, she sitting with her legs folded on her bed, and he sitting on a plastic chair facing her. ‘What about the sun and the moon?’ ‘The sun is a thousand times larger than the moon.’ ‘So?’ ‘But they are positioned in space in such a way that from Earth they appear to be the same size in the sky.’ ‘I never thought of it that way.’ ‘Unni told me that.’ ‘So what if they are the same size?’ ‘They are exactly the same size in the sky, Mythili. It is a mystery how they ended up where they are in space so that they look equal in the sky. They are where they are because that is the only way there can be life on Earth.’ ‘But that is circular logic,’ she says.
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