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.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
The death of my loved ones.
The greatest fear I can remember is coming back from WW II and being amazed that I was more afraid to audition for a job than I was flying 52 missions.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
When the audience walks toward the stage.
To have the courage to fail.
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
Competitive, curious, silly.
Having a family and still loving each other.
This year, I was asked to be a judge for the Women’s prize for fiction and I’ve read 75 books in six months, so I’m parking shame for the time being.
Maxi-multitasking.
Seth Meyers, Fran Lebowitz, Andrew O’Hagan, Willem Dafoe, Gayle King, Lily Tomlin
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