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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.
Waking up in the morning is as perfect as anything gets.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2021 source ↗
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