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.
Not trying something I really want to do.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Food in a sink drain.
Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
Getting rid of my phone.
Myself. I didn’t know how to protect myself adequately when I was younger, and I think I would have experienced my youth differently if I had.
As fun and of help to others.
Cheerful, sensitive, sassy.
Working at a petrol station.
None! We shouldn’t shame people for not having read “the greats”. There are always new greats emerging that may feel more relevant to our life experience, particularly female writers.
Michael Flatley, Olivia de Havilland, John Malkovich, Mike Skinner, Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara
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