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.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2015 source ↗
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
A bad death . . . fast or slow.
A world without music.
Falling asleep watching a movie on a sofa because I drank too much wine at dinner, my head resting on the thigh of a loved one, who will later explain what happened.
They want to leave the party the same time I do.
Sunday mornings with my parents when I visited from college.
People taking themselves seriously.
Robert Carlyle, Miriam Margolyes, Bill Moyers, Stephen Fry, Kerry Godliman, Keir Starmer
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