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Moving on to the fourth committee member. Fear. Nothing but fear.
Fear of rejection.
Fear of acceptance.
Fear of failure.
Fear of success.
Fear of alienation.
Fear of intimacy.
Fear of speaking.
Fear of keeping quiet.
Fear of sleeping.
Fear of insomnia.
Fear of eating.
Fear of drinking.
Fear of starving.
Fear of thirst.
Fear of swimming.
Fear of flying.
Fear of walking.
Fear of running.
Fear of sittiing still.
Fear of suffocating.
Fear of hyperventilating.
Fear of forgetting.
Fear of remembering.
Fear of dogs.
Fear of cats.
Fear of horses.
Fear of birds.
Fear of insects.
Fear of spiders.
Fear of germs.
Fear of mollusks.
Fear of spaghetti.
etc.
etc.
etc.
etc.
The one thing, apparently, that did not fear, was death.
Perhaps he had not thought of it, yet.
Perhaps he would suggest this fear to him.

...Where did The Magnificence find these people?