What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Anjelica Huston said elsewhere, not written here
Nuclear holocaust.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗

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Alex Honnold Rock climber; first person to free solo El Capitan
I think when I was younger, I had a lot of the fears that, that you expect from people. Like I was kind of afraid of spiders and things like that. And I think with, you know, years of dealing with fear nonstop, they've all sort of fallen away. I, I mean, I guess my greatest fear is like public embarrassment or public performance, or like what I said earlier about opera singing I'm like, that is still for sure that would be a nightmare. And like, yeah, I could do it. But I would be so bummed.
Recorded Adam Grant, Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, TED, 20 September 2022 source ↗
Walking into a room filled with friends and family singing “Happy Birthday” to me and I am completely naked.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2014 source ↗
Terry Gross Radio interviewer
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2012 source ↗
Rose Tremain English writer
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.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 April 2022 source ↗

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