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.
Safety of loved ones.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2024 source ↗
To be so cold that I am not able to sleep.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
That I can’t write.
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
You’re more capable than you think.
I think our kids take our stuff!
My very long to-do list.
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
Feeling and being unfocused.
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