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What is your greatest fear?
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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.
Still nuclear annihilation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
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The concept of eternity.
Being confined in a straitjacket.
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Turning into my father.
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