Laziness and procrastination.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
My interest in Los Angeles.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
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I bore myself constantly.
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Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
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