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.
Lack of purpose.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2015 source ↗
I’m afraid of the dark.
Losing my memory.
Failure. I hate losing, particularly at football and politics. I play five-a-side every week – middle of midfield, barking orders. Some people say it’s the taking part that counts. I am not in that camp. It’s the winning that counts.
Never working again.
Chuck Feeney (the James Bond of philanthropy).
An arbitrary contrarian.
Making trails and building a tree house.
Playing catch with my son Noah at Fenway Park.
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