Robert Glenister: 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.

Recorded Robert Glenister said elsewhere, not written here

Premature demise.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 July 2022 source ↗

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Mike Wallace American journalist

I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

The concept of eternity.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

Rachel Maddow

Becoming dickish.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2012 source ↗

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

That we will be remembered as a people who locked our fellow citizens in cages and who believe that some people are rich and some people are poor because “it’s their nature” and that racism and poverty are inevitable parts of the order of things; that M.L.K. and Bobby Kennedy died in vain; and that no one any longer believes what M.L.K. said in his Nobel Prize address in Oslo: “There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.”

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2019 source ↗