Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗
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.
Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2016 source ↗
Something happening to one of my children.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
When I was little, a couple of rapes took place in Glasgow. I remember my mum saying to walk in the middle of the pavement, and to this day I am very conscious of where I am.
Not working and not being able to continue to live this lifestyle.
Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.
I worry that if I don’t challenge myself professionally I’ll lie on the sofa and watch old episodes of Law & Order all day.
Sundays in Paris with Jeffrey. We go to the Sunday market, make a nice lunch, drink a big bottle of Burgundy, and then take a long delicious nap. Heaven.
That they want to be with me.
I don’t care as long as Jeffrey and I go together and we end up in a big suite with a view of the ocean.
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