The question
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.
Fear is for frightened people. I’m not one of those.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
Talking too much.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
No, I’m afraid of nothing, actually. Maybe there are some genres that I would not feel uncomfortable with. I’m not sure I’d be able to do a western or a science-fiction film, but you never know.
Very large bugs.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
Cockroach stamper at a dried-flower factory.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
Whoever has to use the bathroom after my brother.
The main courses are never as tasty as starters. But enough about my sex life.
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
Bear Grylls, Maureen O'Hara, A.J. Jacobs, Andy Serkis, Michael Flatley, Mike Skinner
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