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 ↗
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
Being homeless.
Losing my marbles.
A Reform government.
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.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
As someone who was kind.
Big. Funny. Man.
Every morning when I go into our three-year-old’s room. He’s so happy to see you, it’s a moment of heaven.
The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
Christine Baranski, Hans Zimmer, Tina Fey, Mary Tyler Moore, Eleanor Tomlinson, Takashi Murakami
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