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.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2025 source ↗
Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Being on a plane that is about to crash.
The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
Big. Funny. Man.
To be here in this one moment.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
Absolutely none. I’ve had three run-ups at Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and I conclude it must be boring because I’ve never finished it.
Christine Baranski, Hans Zimmer, Tina Fey, Mary Tyler Moore, Eleanor Tomlinson, Takashi Murakami
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