I call Alex to update him on my recent discoveries. ‘I’m so stuck in my head all of the time,’ I tell him. ‘But he is completely in his body. I want to be like that.’ ‘Maybe he can sense that, too,’ Alex says. ‘You need to find a language that both of you can speak.’ Alex is a painter writing an MA thesis on the way that different artistic mediums convey different sentiments, like alternate languages. We have spoken about it at length together, but I haven’t thought to apply it to people.
