Charles Osgood: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Charles Osgood

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Being found out.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗

Others on this question

Lack of purpose.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗

Seth Meyers American comedian and TV host

Running out of ideas.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2015 source ↗

Shirley Manson Scottish singer and songwriter; lead vocalist of Garbage

Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 May 2022 source ↗

Jason Manford English comedian and singer

Wasting my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗

Drinks on the deck at sunset.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 October 1999 source ↗

Their frankness and honesty.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, October 1999 source ↗

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