To be wildly, desperately, carelessly, nakedly in love, of course. Crazy, obsessive love: brooding, baying at the moon, writing daily missives to the adored. Who wouldn’t want this? Even though the crash is painful.
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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.
I took Nicole out to dinner for the first time on 19 October, 1991. After that, everything changed.
Rob McGibbon, The Definite Article, Rob McGibbon, 27 August 2011 source ↗
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Making trails and building a tree house.
Cooking dinner and hanging out with my kids.
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I love making jam. Plum is best.
Every morning, Monday to Friday, I get up at 7am and make my wife breakfast in bed.
There is an awful lot of pious theatre at the moment, where you go to have what you already believed reinforced.
My university tutor Raymond Williams.
I’ve been reading – and fighting – Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts; feeling admiration and anger in equal parts.
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