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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Drinking a pint of London Pride while munching Twiglets and reading about Colin Firth having a critical and box office catastrophe.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 November 2024 source ↗
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A glass of red wine with ice.
A walk on the Golden Strand beach in County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland.
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Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
I am unable to use scissors.
The cat bowls. With the old cat food dried on like cement.
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