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.
Being unprepared.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2011 source ↗
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
I have a mild fear of not being appreciative enough for the luck that has come my way. That’s about it.
Couples who have to be sat side by side at L.A. dinner parties. What is that all about?!
Being surrounded by friends and family.
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