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 ↗
That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
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.”
We live in a fearful age: Brexit, Covid, global warming, cancel culture, war in Ukraine. Add in pancreatic cancer and you find me in an advanced and complex state of anxiety.
Carol Vorderman, because she’s stuck her head above the parapet to try to hold our bizarre politicians to account.
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.
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.
Other people get sad.
It’s not all soft focus and wheat fields. Love songs can be about hate, fear, envy, lust and anger, because that’s part of love as well.
Sofia Coppola, Stephen Fry, Helena Bonham Carter, Cory Taylor, Sally Mann, Patrick Stewart
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