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.
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2024 source ↗
I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
Becoming dickish.
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.
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
When our family was complete.
Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara, Michael Flatley, Olivia de Havilland, Mike Skinner, John Malkovich
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