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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.
Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗
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Seth Meyers
American comedian and TV host
Running out of ideas.
Talking too much.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
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I would erase my fear of dying, but I suppose that would be erasing some of my human condition.
Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.
Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
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