To be completely alone.
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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 the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
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Rafael Nadal
Spanish professional tennis player, 2001–2024
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
Bruce Dickinson
English heavy metal singer
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?
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View profile →I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
A baseball pitcher.
How long do we have?
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
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