I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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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.
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗
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View all 255 →It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
Gayle King
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I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
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View profile →People taking themselves seriously.
Sunday mornings with my parents when I visited from college.
They want to leave the party the same time I do.
Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened.
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