A User Manual for Getting to Me
Text╱ Lan Nianchu / Translation: Louis Teirlinck
❝ Wouldn’t it be nice if we went somewhere new, together? ❞
An instruction manual for reaching me:
ᴀ. Situational intimacy, stay desirable within motion, and keep watching how desire flows between us. You’ll first need a key to unlock me, but what keeps the key suspended forever is a Möbius strip leading to infinity.
ʙ. Do not ask me to start a fight. I am here with you because of everything that has led to this moment, but I will not give everything away to prove it.
ᴄ. When desire moves between us, I feel safe. But when others can see that I am both desirable and out of reach, it hurts.
ᴅ. My refusals are declarations of strength, a stance that reinforces my undesirability.
ᴇ. I do not offer others the fantasy that they might have me. Instead, I send out this signal: I like you, I do not like them. Not you have me and they cannot, but I choose you, and that is enough.
ғ. The interaction I need is a sense of we — a quiet teamwork, you walking toward me without leaning to either side, as if I were your only destination, the air around us softly saying us. Our connection becomes something no one else can enter.
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ᴋ. Take me somewhere new.
