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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, June 2013 source ↗
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View all 256 →That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
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Pettiness, arrogance, boorishness.
Malala Yousafzai, the young Pakistani girl who was shot for advocating that girls be educated.
My competitive side, the one that keeps score.
That they can pick up where we left off.
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