The question
What is your greatest fear?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 ↗
It was reading out loud, but no longer. (I am dyslexic.) I was encouraged by my husband to do a speech for the Royal National Institute of Blind People, which helped me gain my confidence, and the fear disappeared.
Rats. We had one swim up our loo recently, it was horrific.
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Not having the people I love around me.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
They take my calls.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Standing up while eating.
Little Richard, Alain de Botton, Caroline Lucas, Toni Collette, John Waters, Kiell Smith-Bynoe
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