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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.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2023 source ↗
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Running out of options.
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Losing my marbles.
Losing a loved one.
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View profile →The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
I’m chronically late. It’s magical thinking: I actually believe I can take a shower and get dressed in three minutes, that the train will be pulling into the station the moment I arrive….
Forbearance with my chronic tardiness.
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