Danger to my children. And tidal waves.
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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.
Losing my mind.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2025 source ↗
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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.
That we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
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To die before I know certain things.
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People-pleasing.
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