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 ↗
Aggression without provocation or consequences.
Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”
Of choking on some food and having no one nearby to do the Heimlich maneuver.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
When our family was complete.
The inability to listen. Inauthentic vocal registers. Calling anything other than food “delicious” or “yummy.”
People who do hard, honorable work in obscurity.
Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara, Michael Flatley, Olivia de Havilland, Mike Skinner, John Malkovich
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