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.
Unemployment – I’m an actor.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2025 source ↗
Having a stroke.
Not fulfilling my potential.
That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
I don’t think about my greatest fear.
A successful marriage, my third.
I’d like my parents to be alive – I miss them.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
It’s like arriving somewhere that you’ve always wanted to be.
“Next! We’re looking for somebody else.”
I worked on a kibbutz in Israel and had to clean out the chicken run. It was like an oven. Inside were rows and rows of chickens that had been shitting for months – the whole floor was six inches deep in chicken shit.
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