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 ↗
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
Sheer drops, like a precipice.
I don’t have a great fear of anything. I look at things with positive eyes.
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.
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
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