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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.
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Climate change, duh.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 2024 source ↗
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That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
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Conflict aversion.
Three versions of the same trait: deceit, hypocrisy, and manipulativeness.
Probably the curtain call of my final performance when I played King Lear.
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