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.
That I’ll die worrying.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Collapse of the imagination.
I’ve got vertigo, so anything to do with heights.
Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts.
I know we all have to die, but when my time comes, I’d rather it not be because a goose flew into the engine of a plane I’m on.
They take my calls.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Standing up while eating.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Jodie Foster, Robert Glenister, Melissa Etheridge, Ally McCoist, Zadie Smith, Harrison Ford
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