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.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
I’ve a phobia of statues. It does go back to childhood. My parents brought me to look at a French church late at night. Since then I can’t deal with them.
Losing my marbles.
Climate change, duh.
Collapse of the imagination.
I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
How long do we have?
A baseball pitcher.
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