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.
Something happening to one of my children.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2010 source ↗
It was desperate because of certain things, ingredients like my father being an alcoholic, my mother having too many babies in too short a time, no work available in Ireland, and even when my father did get a job he drank the wages. Then there was the harsh kind of schooling we had with school masters who ruled with a stick and then because of the overwhelming presence of the church, which imbued us with fear all the time. So it was fear, dampness, poverty, alcoholism, fear of the church, fear of the school masters, fear in general.
That I can’t write.
A Broadway theater filled with nothing but critics.
Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
Their willingness to have me as a friend.
Procrastination.
A perfect flight to a perfect landing … with witnesses.
Passive aggression.
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