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.
Becoming dickish.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗
That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
Rodents – including the tiniest mouse.
That I would lose her.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
Discretion and good cheer.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Kellie Maloney, Mike Wallace, Keir Starmer, Bill Moyers, Caroline Lucas, Gloria Steinem
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