Still nuclear annihilation.
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.
Sean DeLaney, podcast transcript, What Got You There, 10 May 2023 source ↗
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Losing my marbles.
Losing another child. (I lost one of my sons to suicide when he was 19.)
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If you are a total atheist and believe in nothing, and you believe that when you die, there's no whatever spiritual realm that you just plop into the earth, well, then your personality is what lives on through recordings like this, through your writing and so that is your personality living after you have physically died. That is my favorite definition of the afterlife.
In the end, I had to pay $3.3 million dollars to buy back that 90%.
Keep you uncorked, keep you unstuck, keep it flowing, keep the ideas going, keep the feedback, keep you in communication with your potential future customers for the book. I think it's a great idea.
And this is my only pair of pants. These three glasses, I don’t even think about it because I just think about having enough.
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