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.
Dependency. Fascism.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
I fear nothing, except for flying.
Losing my marbles.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
I will be dead, why would I care?
Warm, sugary, fierce, protective.
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
Hard-working, creative, irreverent.
I would not leave my teenage children to follow an unworthy love. It lasted a month and scarred the family for ever.
“You’re a narcissist!” From someone who was a narcissist himself.
Garrison Keillor, Kellie Maloney, Brooke Shields, Paul Merson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Penny Lancaster
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