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.
I’m not fond of snakes.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2025 source ↗
Having a great fear.
I don’t think I have one in particular. I am pretty calm. Just some small things that I better not comment on :-).
To die before I know certain things.
Figuratively doing nothing.
An inability to get myself to bed at a reasonable hour.
As not being a total bollix.
We’re not here for long so don’t be wreaking havoc along the way.
Falling off the stage and on to the pianist during the opening number in the Mother Goose pantomime at the Citizens theatre in Glasgow.
Ulysses by James Joyce, but I might make a start next week – or the week after that …
My penchant for having just one too many.
Mariska Hargitay, Ina Garten, Mariella Frostrup, Alan Arkin, Jared Harris, Jerry Lewis
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