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 ↗
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
To be abandoned.
I’m most afraid that someday I’m going to be on an airplane and it’s going to be acting the way I don’t want it to.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
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.
To have the courage to fail.
Maxi-multitasking.
Ultimately, a bigger hallway.
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
Seth Meyers, Fran Lebowitz, Andrew O’Hagan, Willem Dafoe, Gayle King, Lily Tomlin
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