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.
Apathy, either from an audience, the people around me or myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 September 2023 source ↗
Not trying something I really want to do.
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.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
I stopped drinking 18 or 19 years ago, and in an argument someone who will remain nameless said: “Oh just go and have a drink.” It was nasty.
Those mad thoughts. Did you turn off the air fryer? Have I booked my plane for tomorrow?
Exactly what my parents left me: the knowledge of the difference between good and bad and right and wrong. Everything else is entirely up to them.
Content, assured, indecisive.
A 28ft motorboat, which sat in the water for two years because I was so busy working.
Sitting on the fence – I will do anything to avoid confrontation.
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