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.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
Collapse of the imagination.
Ironically, it’s talking to hundreds of people in a room.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
Go back to where you came from.
Competitive, curious, silly.
Through rose-tinted spectacles.
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
Ultimately, a bigger hallway.
This year, I was asked to be a judge for the Women’s prize for fiction and I’ve read 75 books in six months, so I’m parking shame for the time being.
Mark Bonnar, Ardal O'Hanlon, Seth Meyers, Kathy Lette, Laurie Metcalf, Rosie Jones
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