To be stuck in the past.
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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.
When the audience walks toward the stage.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2011 source ↗
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