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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That we won’t act fast enough to save the planet.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2009 source ↗
Losing track (see above).
Totalitarianism in Europe.
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
The tendency to withdraw into myself.
My inability to have a long-term intimate relationship.
Being totally present and at peace in the moment—and knowing that my children and grandchildren are all right.
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