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.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 October 2024 source ↗
Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
A perfect day is when I can sit outside and listen to an audiobook and watch my family walking around.
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
Conflict aversion.
Climate change, duh.
DJ Khaled, James Taylor, Betty White, George Takei, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Loren
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