Being at home, watching a good movie with my husband. Dining out with good friends.
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 September 2014 source ↗
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View all 158 →My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
Being in process on a creative project I love.
When the coffee kicks in early in the morning and I’m on the couch with my dogs, reading the paper.
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To lose the ability to do my work.
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
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