The question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?Originally asked
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.
Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
Watching seeds grow in the greenhouse. Drawing or reading or cooking.
Weeping with laughter.
Happiness springs from having found a form of expression that also earns recognition.
Playing around in my studio by myself, discovering the possibility of new ideas.
Probably Daniel Barenboim. His blend of insane talent, intellect, and profound humanitarianism is one that comes along very, very rarely. I would put Martina Navratilova and Stephen Sondheim in a tie for second.
Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
Being found out.
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