Something happening to one of my children.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗
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.
Something happening to one of my children.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗
My belief that saying it makes it happen.
Being found out.
That I will suddenly lose my sense of humor, and everyone knows it but me.
To die before I know certain things.
A perfect flight to a perfect landing … with witnesses.
Their willingness to have me as a friend.
Procrastination.
Passive aggression.
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