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.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗
Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.
That I might have to do a normal job.
Losing my mind.
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
A good listener.
Learning to get back up.
I was the PE technician at my old secondary school, so I had to pump up all the balls, wash all the kits and get the form notes in before morning registration every day.
I am genuinely buzzed about it! I think we just keep getting better, smarter, wiser, truer, happier.
I overthink everything.
Mornings. Playing music, fresh coffee, dippy eggs and soldiers, my girlfriend – what’s not to love?
Pauline McLynn, Joyce Carol Oates, Father John Misty, Rafael Nadal, Frank McCourt, Neil Patrick Harris
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