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.
Totalitarianism in Europe.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 September 2025 source ↗
As a participant in the movement, as I was sitting in, I came to that point where I lost all sense of fear.
My wife dying. I wouldn’t know how to go on.
I’m a very fearless person.
Sharks. The ones in the ocean.
Losing the 1992 general election.
When I worked out I was gay and decided to leave the church at 29.
A dog, though my husband would prefer a cat.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
Zelenskyy for holding out against Putin.
An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
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