Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
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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 being liked.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 December 2022 source ↗
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Losing my family in some way.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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“You’re not funny.” I fully understand why my comedy might not be right for everyone, but don’t tell me, get on with your day!
One time I got so drunk in the Soho theatre in London that I fell asleep in the disabled toilet for two hours. People still call the toilet Rosie’s Bedroom.
My books. There’s no greater feeling than a disabled child coming up to me and saying, “I’ve never seen myself in a book before.”
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