The question
How would you sum yourself up in three words?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Needing order always.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
Loving, creative, demanding.
Big. Funny. Man.
Content, assured, indecisive.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
My work. What shape will it take?
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
As a nice old man.
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