My pain is under control and I'm terribly happy - it sounds weird to say, but I'm as happy as I've ever been in my life. I used to think I'd rather be hit by the proverbial bus, but having a couple of months knowing this is coming has really helped me both do the boring 'death-min', but also get my thoughts and prepare myself, and feel so accepting of what's to come. It's been such a great bonus, actually.
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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 August 2012 source ↗
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View all 44 →In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Quickly, without warning, maybe even in my sleep, and while we're putting in requests: before I lose my mind and my ability to gallop across the countryside on horseback.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
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View profile →Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
The inability to stop talking about themselves when they’re not being interviewed.
A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.
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