Bureau of Recurrent Longing · Reg. 797

The Tidal Register of a debt the moon keeps calling in

Nightly measurement of one specific unfinished feeling, recorded from the shoreline of a person who told themselves, on the flat line, that they were done. Every flood settles the same debt on the sand. All data below is invented. The feeling is not.

Fig. 797 — Measured longing μLng vs. night, n=797 nights. The dashed line at 0 is THE FLAT LINE — where the water marked it and went. The dotted ceiling is the debt: no flood ever crests above it, none ever falls short. ◐ moon markers indicate a re-call event.

Methodology

Longing sampled at 03:11 local, the hour it schusses down the fastest. Instrument: one stretchy nerve, calibrated against the Masai count of stars that refuse to set. Baseline drift corrected against the flat line. Error bars omitted; the error is the point.

Findings

Amplitude decays 4% per cycle, yet each crest arrives at the identical debt: +797 μLng. Conclusion: forgetting shrinks the wave, never the tide. The moon is billed 0.00. The moon does not pay.

Bureau of Recurrent Longing — internal register #a73de4. Filed under coin: tails. Do not attempt to drain the shoreline; it fills again by morning. // debt outstanding, indefinitely.