Dying with a feeling of incompleteness.
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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.
Losing my virginity.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2021 source ↗
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A bad death . . . fast or slow.
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Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
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View profile →Intolerance, which is never far from stupidity.
I never let it go.
Weirdly enough, in Portugal during confinement.
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