Monday, February 14, 2011

Proust Questionnaire (2011)

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Guilt and shame.

Where would you like to live?
Canada.

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Sex and a cigarette.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Sloth.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
The male characters of the Ka-Tet of the Nineteen and Ninety-Nine and the Losers Club.

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Yo mama.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My paternal grandmother.

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
The female characters of Ka-Tet of the Nineteen and Ninety-Nine and the Losers Club.

Your favorite artist?
Mine Karatay, of late.

Your favorite musician?
Mountain Goats, Thrice, and Wintersleep.

The quality you most admire in a man?
Humility.

The quality you most admire in a woman?
Honesty.


Your favorite virtue?
Tolerance.

Your favorite occupation?
Reading, writing, and smoking cigarettes.

Who would you have liked to be?
Someone important.

Your most marked characteristic?
I have many scars.


What do you most value in your friends?
Patience.

What is your principle defect?
Infidelity.

What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To remain forever unforgiven.

What would you like to be?
Faithful.

What is your favorite color?
Pink and turquoise.

What is your favorite flower?
Irises and lilies.

What is your favorite bird?
Black-capped chickadees.

Who are your favorite prose writers?
Steven King and Kurt Vonnegut.

Who are your favorite poets?
Jewel Kilcher and Alden Nowlan. Also, the Director.

Who are your heroes in real life?
My father.

Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Eleanor Roosevelt.

What are your favorite names?
Kaileigh Iris, Susannah Rose, and Edward Dean.

What is it you most dislike?
Insensitivity.

What historical figures do you most despise?
Robert E. Lee.

What event in military history do you most admire?
I don't admire violence.

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Determination and motivation.

How would you like to die?
In the arms of someone who loves me.

What is your present state of mind?
Conflicted.

What is your motto?
I've always wished I could live by this quote: "I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." - Colette, the Last of Cheri






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