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.
Perfectionism that leads to procrastination.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 February 2025 source ↗
That we will have waited too long to save the earth from environmental catastrophe.
Heights, and not getting along with people.
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
Being found out.
That fear and excitement sometimes feel quite similar and you can misinterpret one for the other.
Working on myself. I’m a work in progress to the end.
An air traffic controller.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
Watching the documentary The Remarkable Life of Ibelin [about a gamer who died at 25 of a degenerative muscular disease]. I bawled.
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Tim Peake, Charles Dance, Roger Ebert, Rose Tremain, Charles Osgood
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