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 can’t say it.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 July 2026 source ↗
Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
Having no purpose.
Pain of any sort.
For world capitalism to grind to a halt.
The internet. Such potential for good and for levelling up the world, but such a quagmire in reality.
Making people smaller than they are because of something they can’t handle in themselves.
Just. Hanging. On.
Like getting out of the right side of the bed every morning, even when you don’t.
My interest in Los Angeles.
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