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.
Regrets. That’s no way to live.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 March 2025 source ↗
Losing my memory.
A world where greed rules.
Spiders, needles, blood, pain and breaking wind in public.
To be abandoned.
Having music for limbs.
Learning to get back up.
The three things I strive for are authenticity, presence and empathy. You’d have to ask my loved ones if I’m pulling them off.
I overthink everything.
My sister. She is the most loving, positive and generous person I know.
A good listener.
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