Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 August 2018 source ↗
My wife. She is the most beautiful person I know in every way and has an endless energy for other people that a vinegary old misanthrope like myself can only marvel at.
Michelle Obama.
Two friends who work for the NHS, Jason and Kate. One is a paramedic and one has been moved to work in an ICU.
My father, because he’s never run away from anything.
Having a gun held to my head at a May Day rally during the revolution in Grenada. I was mistaken for a CIA agent.
The BBC World Service followed by the dawn chorus.
To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
Exhilarating. I’ve been extremely lucky in that the person I love, Annalena, happens to be my wife.
In my mid- to late-20s, in London, beginning to publish, living hand to mouth, having fun. Also now, when love and life and work have finally cohered.
Reece Shearsmith, Julian Clary, Ronald Harwood, Jane Asher, Ruth Jones, Fran Lebowitz
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