Any misfortune involving our kids. Also, I have recurring nightmares that involve being chased by people or being attacked by scary animals.
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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 I might have to do a normal job.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2009 source ↗
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Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
I’m a very fearless person.
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I'd have not sung along with Yellow Submarine in that infant school hall.
Cleaning toilets in a motorway service station.
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
I would obviously be in a good place chemically, the synapses would be content. I would play with my kids. I don’t think I would have time to watch anything by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman would suddenly feel like not that good a director if I only had a few hours.
When I was a child and I got a new toy.
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