The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My work. What shape will it take?
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗
The couple in the hotel room next to me.
A good film, a good book, a good script, a long phone call.
Climate change. That is the single most important calamity in the making that I obsess over.
Rats scurrying in the roof. I won the last war but it’s only a matter of time.
Needing order always.
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!”
Picking up RAF pilots’ parachute packs and gear they dropped off in a pile.
Recently, as people began to understand what I am trying to do in my painting.
A detective. Or a writer. Or a poet.
A fellow artist called me a flaneur!
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