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 ↗
Flipping my wig.
Dying when my children are still young. I know how much it hurt me. I was 30 when my mum died and 39 when my dad died, and even then, that was too young.
Being poor—or, worse, having Kelsey Grammer fight with Teddy Kennedy over who is to drive me home.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
Discretion and good cheer.
Loud bar, good band, cold beer, ride home.
I would be a better correspondent. I’m hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Now. My life is better with every year of living it.
Kellie Maloney, Mike Wallace, Keir Starmer, Bill Moyers, Caroline Lucas, Gloria Steinem
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