Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
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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.
That fear becomes too great.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 October 2008 source ↗
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Not enough food in the fridge.
Still nuclear annihilation.
To be stuck in the past.
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Jeff Buckley's rendition of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.
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Several: cutting the local vicar's lawn, shovelling shit from a stable, waiting tables, picking up and washing actors' smelly pants and socks.
Doc Brown proved that editing the past is disastrous.
Come back to me the night before I pop my clogs.
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