Losing my mind.
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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.
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2018 source ↗
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View all 256 →Small things make me anxious – like social things – but I have no big fears because I have faith in my heart.
Roger Ebert
Film critic
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
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View profile →When, as a university freshman, I would go to the ocean in the summer and free-dive all day long.
Increasing forgetfulness.
I’d like to increase my brain’s computing speed.
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