Robert Glenister
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Premature demise.
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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.
I am not afraid.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗
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I guess lack of patience as well.
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That I have no patience.
Staying alive, being here at this age. So many songs. It’s crazy.
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