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.
To lose the ability to do my work.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.
The death of my loved ones.
That I’ll never work again.
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
Natalie Imbruglia, Ernest Borgnine, Hugh Skinner, Bruno Tonioli, Shakin' Stevens, Su Pollard
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