Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.
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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.
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗
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Procrastination.
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