I’m from Birmingham. I’m not afraid of things. Things are afraid of me.
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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.
Having a great fear.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 January 2023 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 256 →Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
I honestly don’t have a particular fear. We must live life without limits, and fear can become a limit.
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View profile →I would deplore feeling deplorable about myself.
Like falling – endlessly – and then discovering you have wings.
That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
My biggest disappointment would be living with disappointment. What a burden to be shackled to. I would be truly disappointed if I didn’t (as the song says) pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.
As a kind person who cared for others.
The inability to negotiate peace and truly forgive.
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