Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist
Very large bugs.
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Identity & self
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.
That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗
Others on this question
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Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
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Driving solo across the country from New York to Washington State.
Tristan Harris.
Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.
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