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.
Talking too much.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2017 source ↗
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
It’s a toss-up between a tarantula crawling on me and dying alone.
That I’ll die worrying.
Incapacitation.
When I finished writing a book.
Getting hired. With the possible exception of my daughters’ births and my wedding day, the happiest moments of my life were when someone offered me a job.
Failure to be on time.
Absentmindedness.
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