Looking for Alice - by Henrik Karlsson - Escaping Flatland

Not dating

Alice B. Toklas This is part 1 of Looking for Alice, a series of essays about the history of my relationship to Johanna. See also: part 2, “Dostoevsky as lover”; part 3, “Relationships are coevolutionary loops”; part 4, “When I accept myself just as I am, I change”; and part 5, “Love is about being invested in someone’s continual expansion”. Someone once asked Gertrude Stein if she was a lesbian. Stein answered no, I just like Alice. I was reminded of this story the other day after two friends, independently of each other, asked me for dating advice. I don’t know much about dating. The…

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