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 we’re all going to hell in a handcart and Trump is driving.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 April 2025 source ↗
Living a life of regret because of fear.
Dying of the same awful disease that took my mother – a particularly aggressive form of dementia called Pick’s disease.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
Being lost and no one wanting to find me.
Being married for 17 years and having two amazing children.
Instead of saying, “I tripped up”, you have to use the words, “I had a fall.”
A sense of wonder.
Like a warm velvet glove.
Lack of empathy.
If it scares you, do it.
Michael Cunningham, Alison Steadman, John Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Takashi Murakami, Eleanor Tomlinson
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