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.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 September 2023 source ↗
Rodents – including the tiniest mouse.
Having gone through the depression of ’29, I’d hate to see the U.S. hit bottom and not come back!
I don’t think it’s misused yet, people are afraid of it might be misused but on the other hand, there is also value in finding out about the relation between several particular predispositions. You might be more careful if you are told that your genetic background is such that you shouldn’t eat fat in large amounts or so, it does help you change your life a little bit and so it’s not so bad, but it’s hard to find out which genetic background is causing these things.
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
Hurtful, hard, like concrete but also the soft, silky, smooth, cool pillow that you lay your head on. It’s like birds singing in the morning with the aurora going over your head at night. That’s love for me.
Lack of confidence in speaking to the opposite sex.
Natural, caring, thoughtful.
Not being honest.
Finding a partner.
That life is tough and unfair; that life is beautiful.
Sarah Perry, Tony Christie, Timothy Hutton, Jason Manford, Joseph Fiennes, Lauren Bacall
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