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 being liked.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
I think that loss of speech, and of understanding of speech, and of understanding of writing, and of coherent writing – these losses will amount to the loss of my mind. I know what this feels like and it has no insides, no internal echo. Mind means talking to oneself. There wouldn't be any secret mind surviving in me.
The loss of anything, be it a loved one or a faculty—my sight, hearing, or mind.
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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