Al Franken
Senator and comedian
Surrounded by my great-great-grandchildren.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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Hans Zimmer
Film composer
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Alice Waters
Chef, restaurateur and food activist
Peacefully, knowing I’ll be composted in a mushroom suit.
Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
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View profile →My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
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