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.
Immunity to cruelty.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 April 2025 source ↗
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
Going back to addiction.
Balloons. I have a big phobia of balloons. Big.
Telling a story to my son about my brother.
When I worked at a dog food company shovelling the exterminated rats.
Two days ago. To move to New York.
I worry about doing everything right with my kids.
Barack Obama, for his humility and grace in the face of enormous difficulty.
The Covid years. My life is diminished since then. I lost my brother. My children lost some social expression, and we are still recovering from that.
Roger Ebert, Rose Tremain, Charles Dance, Tim Peake, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Whoopi Goldberg
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