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.
To overcook that plate of fettuccine.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2021 source ↗
Not actualising my full potential.
Insanity. I am on a recovery programme – clean from drugs and drink for many years – and if I stopped doing all that stuff I’d go crazy pretty quick and pick up drugs again, because I was a real fucking addict.
That fear becomes too great.
Rodents – including the tiniest mouse.
In the hospital when my children were born.
I’m a perfectionist; it’s boring.
A plate of fettuccine ragù with my kids.
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