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Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 July 2022 source ↗
The question
What do you fear most?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.
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