I’m quite scared of bats. I’m just seeing rats with wings – no, thanks.
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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 it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
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To be eaten by a shark.
The current occupant of the White House.
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Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
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Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.
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