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.
Incapacitation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2017 source ↗
Losing a loved one.
Immunity to cruelty.
Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
I can’t say it.
A free day anywhere with a good dog.
Jimmy Carter. Michelle Obama. Barack Obama. Geoffrey Canada. Tank Man. Marian Wright Edelman. Madeleine Albright. King Abdullah II of Jordan. Norman Lear. Malala Yousafzai. Beyoncé Knowles.
Any recent gathering with friends and family; yesterday, running by the ocean; anytime, solving a problem or creating something. Right now, in bed with news and popcorn.
Michael Flatley, Olivia de Havilland, Mike Skinner, John Malkovich, Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara
Search the directory for somebody in particular.