The indispensable Maria Popova recently pointed to a cache of “seven-word autobiographies of famous writers, artists, musicians, and philosophers.” Some are clever, some coy, some smug. (Joan Didion: “Seven words do not yet define me.”)
I decided to play and came up with the following:
In flux. Musician, critic, biographer, librettist, playwright….
Not especially clever–except, perhaps, for the ellipsis–but at least it’s accurate. So far.