The Infamous Proust Questionairre

[lesbiaphrodite]

Please respond to the following Proustian questionnaire if you have the time and inclination to do so.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

being penniless and being unable to find the way home


Where would you like to live?

deep within a forest or high upon a hill above the ocean

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

good food, ample time to dream and make love, good family, great art

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

I indulge myself too much in fantasy and also too much in reality.


Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

Odysseus, Antigone, King Lear

Who are your favorite characters in history?

Churchill, Kennedy, Joan of Arc


Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Isabelle Archer, Little Miss Muffet

Your favorite painter?

Picasso

Your favorite musician?

Beethoven

The quality you most admire in a man?
strength and willingness to push someone down if need be


The quality you most admire in a woman?]
strength and the ability to create life and beauty


Your favorite virtue?
honesty


Your favorite occupation?
loving and when not loving, writing about loving


Who would you have liked to be?
I like who i am

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Executing innocent lives.

Where would you like to live?

Savannah, Georgia

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

To reside at the place that provides you with joy.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Buying too many books.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

George Smiley

Who are your favorite characters in history?

Robert E. Lee

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

None.

Your favorite painter?

Monet

Your favorite musician?

Francis Poulenc and Alexandre Guilmant.

The quality you most admire in a man?

courage.

The quality you most admire in a woman?

courage.

Your favorite virtue?

duty

Your favorite occupation?

exploration

Who would you have liked to be?

Michealangelo.

 

[3113]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Having no more coconut-chocolate candies

Where would you like to live?

On a secret headquarters compound in a lovely forested area on the Coast (Northern or East).

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

Writing a great story.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Lying. I'm a writer.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

The Silver Surfer. Cyclops of the X-Men. Renfield from Dracula.

Who are your favorite characters in history?

Less interested in individuals than periods in history

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Medea, Circe, Wicked Witch of the West, Lilo (from Lilo & Stitch)

Your favorite painter?

Peter Max

Your favorite musician?

Bach

The quality you most admire in a man?

Humor

The quality you most admire in a woman?]

Humor

Your favorite virtue?

Courage

Your favorite occupation?

Writing

Who would you have liked to be?

An evil genius ruling the universe. Oh. Wait. I'm already that....

 

[3113]

So. I filled out the Proust Questionnaire...where's my tea and madeleine?

 

[Brute_Force]

Please respond to the following Proustian questionnaire if you have the time and inclination to do so.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

being unloved


Where would you like to live?

somewhere people don't live

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

a big bed with lots of pillows, an infinite supply of Mom's cooking, the time to write, to make love, and to ride a motorcycle

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

I indulge myself by being overly sensitive. I indulge myself by sometimes drinking too much.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

Hamlet, Oedipus

Who are your favorite characters in history?

Buddha, Jesus, St. Thomas More

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind

Your favorite painter?

Cezanne
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our favorite musician?

Billie Holiday

The quality you most admire in a man?
bravery
The quality you most admire in a woman?]

brains

Your favorite virtue?

honor

Your favorite occupation?

making love to a woman

Who would you have liked to be?
Marc Antony

 

[Epmd607]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Working/taking classes at the Ayn Rand Institute

Where would you like to live?
With humanoid aliens on another planet just like Earth but awesomer

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
On top of my wife

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Sniffin' panties

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Albertine and Ada Veen

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Dorothy Parker, Freddy Nietzsche

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Lawrence of Arabia, that B who drowns herself at the end of The Awakening

Your favorite painter?
Aron Tager dot com

Your favorite musician?
Bob D

The quality you most admire in a man?
femininity

The quality you most admire in a woman?]
fecundity

Your favorite virtue?
Lust

Your favorite occupation?
packaging municipal bonds

Who would you have liked to be?
The Peacock Angel or the bass player from the Cream that no one cares about.

 

[3113]

Ah-hem! Still waiting on that tea and madeleine.

 

[TE999]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Working at a job you hate but the money's good.


Where would you like to live?

A cabin high in the Appalachian's.

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

Peace, quiet and a full stomach.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Buying and collecting books...with no place to put them.


Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

Captain Nemo, Retief, Conan the Barbarian, Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser.

Who are your favorite characters in history?

Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, 'Stonewall' Jackson, Gen. George Patton.


Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Red Sonja.

Your favorite painter?

Van Gogh.

Your favorite musician?

Bob Seger.

The quality you most admire in a man?

Being strong, yet kind to women and children.


The quality you most admire in a woman?

Poise, confidence and a sense of humor.


Your favorite virtue?

Loyalty.


Your favorite occupation?

Writing.


Who would you have liked to be?

Who I am now, only fifteen years earlier.



"O wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel's as others see us."

Robert Burns.

 

[bwallard]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

The brightest hopes of my life were a fool's vanity.


Where would you like to live?

Somewhere warm with enough food and wine and pot and a few close and friendly people.

What is your idea of earthly happiness?

That it is found, no more than enough, in surprising places.


To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Hope.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

I am so fickle. Right now, I have to say Gulley Jimson because I was just talking with a friend about the constraints of success.

Who are your favorite characters in history?

Ben Franklin, for now. I love how he was just so busy with fun!


Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Again with the fickle: Eli in Let The Right One In, maybe because that's what I'm reading and I love the age ambiguity and the tension between her love and her greed.

I like Alice Munro's narrators. They see so much stuff.

And Elizabeth Bennet.



Your favorite painter?

Joe The

Just kidding.

Your favorite musician?

Whatever I've been happily listening to for more than two minutes.

The quality you most admire in a man?

Providing. Generosity in all the spheres.


The quality you most admire in a woman?]

Self-confidence, openness, an appreciation of men.

Your favorite virtue?

Compassion.


Your favorite occupation?

Writing.


Who would you have liked to be?

I would like to start over. Can I? Please!

 

[3113]

There are no madeleines...are there? http://bestsmileys.com/sad/10.gif

 

[sadangel]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
For me, it was ten years ago. Waking up and finding my partner dead beside me.

Where would you like to live?
Anywhere that my Sir is.

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being with my Sir. Being snuggled, cuddled, loved.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Reading too much. Buying books when I really shouldn't.

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Hercules

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Zena; Warrior Princess, Isis

Your favorite painter?
Michelangelo

Your favorite musician?
Reba McEntire or Amy Grant

The quality you most admire in a man?
Strength and honesty

The quality you most admire in a woman?
Courage and honesty

Your favorite virtue?
Honesty

Your favorite occupation?
That I have done: Working Customer Service for a large retail chain.
That I have not done: Psychologist/Counselor

Who would you have liked to be?
As a girl, I wanted to be a ballerina, or an ice skater. As an adult, I wanted to become a Psychologist and work with children and adults who had been sexually abused as children. (Alas, money stood in my way; or rather, lack of it.)

 

[cloudy]

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
being utterly alone, without family or connections

Where would you like to live?
California - it'll always be home for me.

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Making a difference, even if it's very small

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Laziness, procrastination

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
hmmm...Hercules (the flawed hero), Kate (Taming of the Shrew)

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Eleanor of Acquitane...what a woman.

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
I thought of one! Coraline.

Your favorite painter?
R. C. Gorman

Your favorite musician?
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mozart, Jimmy Page, John Bonham

The quality you most admire in a man?
strength of character, honesty

The quality you most admire in a woman?]
strength and compassion

Your favorite virtue?
empathy

Your favorite occupation?
Historian

Who would you have liked to be?
If only I'd had the time - Anthropologist, maybe

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

So. I filled out the Proust Questionnaire...where's my tea and madeleine?

Sooooo sorry for the delay on this. Many thanks for answering the questions. In return, I offer you tea and scones. (Sorry, we're fresh out of madeleine today). :Hope this is okay.

 

[cloudy]

Sooooo sorry for the delay on this. Many thanks for answering the questions. In return, I offer you tea and scones. (Sorry, we're fresh out of madeleine today). :Hope this is okay.

please let there be pralines...please let there be pralines...please let there be pralines...

 

[lesbiaphrodite]

please let there be pralines...please let there be pralines...please let there be pralines...

Are you kidding me? No other way but with pralines baby. And, for you, beignets also!!

 

[cloudy]

Are you kidding me? No other way but with pralines baby. And, for you, beignets also!!

oh, yummy!

And shrimp etoufee for supper makes me a happy southern girl.