Seth Meyers
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Running out of ideas.
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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.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 January 2024 source ↗
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Never working again.
People finding out my greatest fear.
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Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
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