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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2018 source ↗
Flying over the Australian outback in a jet, looking down at the incredible orange scenery, the uninhabited hills and gullies, listening to Tchaikovsky on my headphones and drinking champagne with a cigarette in my hand. It was 1984, I'd been to the Adelaide Book Festival and was going back to my husband and my children.
Right here, right now.
Watching my sons ski down a mountain for the first time.
Watching Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury. During Because The Night I actually shouted, "This is the greatest moment of my life!"
Losing consciousness or awareness.
To survive from an impossible condition.
Insensitivity. Indifference about what is right or wrong. Indifference about justice.
Joanne Froggatt, Ethan Hawke, Clive Myrie, Helen George, Jimmy Kimmel, Joseph Fiennes
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