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.
Losing my memory.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗
I’ll know it when I see it. Hello, Room 101.
A crippling accident.
That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
That I’ll never work again.
Selfishness. People who block junctions in their car.
Party, good friends, lots of dancing.
Sohana Collins. A little girl I know who’s extremely brave.
Driving golf balls into the cricket pavilion on summer evenings in my pajamas.
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