Figuratively doing nothing.
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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.
Not getting into heaven.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2014 source ↗
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Carrie Fisher
Actor and writer
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
Talking too much.
That I’ll never work again.
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I’d rather name one for someone else. I’m egomaniacal.
My grandson, for taking such wonderful care of me in my old age.
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