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.
That I’ll die worrying.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2017 source ↗
Outliving my kids – and rats.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
I’m quite scared of bats. I’m just seeing rats with wings – no, thanks.
Not working. I want to be one of those old actors on the set of Casualty at 95, who quietly passes away in the actual scene rather than at home.
The sewing-machine repairman at the corner of 107th and Broadway.
Their goddamned fucking honesty.
Standing up while eating.
They take my calls.
St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto: 8:31 A.M., July 1, 1981; 8:29 A.M., May 4, 1983.
Listening to my sons play a piano-and-sax duet.
Mary Tyler Moore, Malala Yousafzai, Monica Lewinsky, Yo-Yo Ma, Roger Moore, Bonnie Raitt
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