Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
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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.
I’m not fond of snakes.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
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Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
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Not being able to fend for myself and being a burden to others.
My penchant for having just one too many.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
Overwhelming, discombobulating, irrational and unreasonable.
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