I am spooked by water underground, water in drains and water in machinery. I am very frightened of mill wheels.
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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.
Losing my mind and not knowing it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2008 source ↗
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Having a great fear.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
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