I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
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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.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
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