Henrik Karlsson

I write essays about relationships, thinking, and agency, sometimes with my wife. We live on a windswept island in the Baltic Sea with our two daughters. Click to read Escaping Flatland, by Henrik Karlsson, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

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How is music possible

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If you take a scene from a horror movie and add funny music, the killer suddenly looks hilarious. Isn’t it strange that that happens?