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.

Recorded Hans Zimmer said elsewhere, not written here
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2019 source ↗

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Katie Melua
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗
Cory Taylor Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
Recorded Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016 source ↗

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