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.
To lose the ability to do my work.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2014 source ↗
A plane that I’m on plunging into the sea. Aside from that, pigeons.
My children ending up anything like me.
Well, I’m not too happy about snakes. I also hate sand. It’s very inconvenient.
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
Unmade bed surrounded by books, writing utensils, and the dog; a plate of demolished toast with butter on my chest; loved ones puttering not too close but not too far.
An “elastic” sense of time (fancy way of saying I am late a lot).
My uncle, Edward Wood Dunham. He has Parkinson’s disease and faces every day with bravery, humor, and a gin-and-tonic.
Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Patti LuPone, Bob Schieffer, Su Pollard, Shakin' Stevens, Bruno Tonioli
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