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’m a very fearless person.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2009 source ↗
I’ll know it when I see it. Hello, Room 101.
My wife going on The Real Housewives of New York City.
I fear the arrogance we are all at risk of, the pride that pushes us to put “I” in place of “God”. More prosaically, I fear physical pain because it risks stripping us of our dignity.
Being found out.
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups.
Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
I know too many really good people to choose just one person—and that is not indecision.
Any type of indecision.
Indecision and wishy-washiness.
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