The Proust Questionnaire

[Fata Morgana]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
5. Which living person do you most admire?
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
7. What is your current state of mind?
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
9. On what occasion do you lie?
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
11. Which living person do you most despise?
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16. When and where were you happiest?
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
21. Where would you most like to live?
22. What is your most treasured possession?
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
24. What is your favorite occupation?
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
26. What do you most value in your friends?
27. Who are your favorite writers?
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
31. What are your favorite names?
32. What is it that you most dislike?
33. What is your greatest regret?
34. How would you like to die?
35. What is your motto?

 

[KRCummings]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Nothing is perfect
2. What is your greatest fear?
Snakes on a plane or a roof.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My lack of superpowers
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
That they exist
5. Which living person do you most admire?
The guy on Extreme Catches who always wears the speedo.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
My car
7. What is your current state of mind?
Indiana
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Virginity
9. On what occasion do you lie?
We're gonna have to narrow that down
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
How my natural beauty makes others look so ugly
11. Which living person do you most despise?
All of them
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Quality? In a man? Bwahahahahaha! Good one!
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
All of them
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Fucking idiot
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Food or oxygen. Tough call.
16. When and where were you happiest?
the womb
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
Invisibility
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
lack of invisibility
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
being born
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
a thing
21. Where would you most like to live?
earth
22. What is your most treasured possession?
my treasure
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
the part where she hobbles him
24. What is your favorite occupation?
probably the Nazis in France
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
my ass often has handprints
26. What do you most value in your friends?
their money
27. Who are your favorite writers?
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Atticus
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
I don't know. I didn't know any of them.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
Superman, Batman and Iron Man
31. What are your favorite names?
Toiletta Sharmin
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Idiots
33. What is your greatest regret?
Not being invisible
34. How would you like to die?
I wouldn't
35. What is your motto?
You're a fucking idiot

There ya go.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Christ you were quick! I'm proper pondering...

 

[Fata Morgana]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Walking through the woods in snow
2. What is your greatest fear? Spiders
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Bad tempered
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Lying
5. Which living person do you most admire? Kate Bush
6. What is your greatest extravagance? Book buying on a mammoth scale
7. What is your current state of mind? Mellow
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Temperance
9. On what occasion do you lie? When someone asks if they look nice and they don't.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? Abnormally tight vagina
11. Which living person do you most despise? Phil
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Humour
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Humour
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? cunt & fabulous
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? Books
16. When and where were you happiest? Two weeks tomorrow
17. Which talent would you most like to have? To be able to sing
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Be more laid back.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Not punching Phil
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A hardy goat on a hillside in Snowdonia
21. Where would you most like to live? Somewhere very cold and remote
22. What is your most treasured possession? My Claddagh ring
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? A broken heart
24. What is your favorite occupation? Working with animals
25. What is your most marked characteristic? Sense of humour
26. What do you most value in your friends? Honesty
27. Who are your favorite writers? No fave writers lots of fave books
28. Who is your hero of fiction? Heathcliff minus the cruel streak
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Isobel Gowdie
30. Who are your heroes in real life? Anyone who does good for animals
31. What are your favorite names? Neville & Claude for my next cats
32. What is it that you most dislike? Liars
33. What is your greatest regret? Not having a vocation/job I truly love.
34. How would you like to die? Cheese overdose or peacefully in my sleep
35. What is your motto? Cunt.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Come on, spill fuckers!

 

[beetlebum]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
a good sandwich and an IPA
2. What is your greatest fear?
waking up from this 32 year long daydream
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
my nonjudgmental kindness
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
their judgmental cruelty
5. Which living person do you most admire?
björk
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
good food and drinks with a bullet
7. What is your current state of mind?
happysad
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
self-proclaimed spirituality
9. On what occasion do you lie?
when the truth might cause someone to end in tears
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
nothing, i am fond of my imperfections
11. Which living person do you most despise?
nobody, i might misunderstand some people, but i'd never say i despise them
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
the art of being masculine without being a fucking pompous asshat
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
that subtle je ne sais quois of their mannerism. also, yummy tits!
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
per se, perhaps, periwinkle blue
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
my wife
16. When and where were you happiest?
probably all prior to adolescence?
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
juggle lit torches whilst riding an unicycle
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
two hearts. like doctor who!
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
every night i go out and sing karaoke
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
i'd come back as a small body of water
21. Where would you most like to live?
istanbul
22. What is your most treasured possession?
i guess my fender guitar
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
being human
24. What is your favorite occupation?
gardener
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
my hobochic good looks
26. What do you most value in your friends?
those moments of unabashed sincerity when we're all pissed drunk
27. Who are your favorite writers?
dostoevsky, mishima, borges, garcía lorca, chekhov and kawabata
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
BATMAN
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
anne frank
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
besides the beatles?
31. What are your favorite names?
eric(a), rhiannon, agnes, marcus, elenor, armando
32. What is it that you most dislike?
probably pickles
33. What is your greatest regret?
to quote the late and great edith piaf: non, je ne regrette rien
34. How would you like to die?
by your side (is such a heavenly way to dieee)
35. What is your motto?
it's on my sig

 

[Fata Morgana]

Beetle, I'm a blind bitch. At first I thought your greatest happiness was a good sandwich and the IRA.

 

[pointless]

losing your toes to frostbite is your idea of perfect happiness? fucking weirdo.

 

[beetlebum]

Beetle, I'm a blind bitch. At first I thought your greatest happiness was a good sandwich and the IRA.

haha

not so much, huh?

 

[blackleggings]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Holding a newborn
2. What is your greatest fear?
Tornadoes
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
my impulsivity
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Selective hearing, or not listening when someone is talking to them.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
My grandmother, ten kids, married for over 60 years. She won't be here for much longer, but continues to give every day.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
Shoes and music
7. What is your current state of mind?
Content
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Continence
9. On what occasion do you lie?
To please others
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
I bruise and mark easily, so my random little bruises that show how much of a klutz I am.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
No one particular, any one that purposefully harms a child.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
The ability to make me laugh
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Same. I become a fan of too many that bring a smile to my face.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
for fuck's sake or son of an asshole
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
An amazing almost 4 year old
16. When and where were you happiest?
2009, here.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
sing
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
To be as happy with others as they are with me.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Completing a marathon
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Cloud
21. Where would you most like to live?
Everywhere. I want to travel and not have to stay in one place.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
My grandmother's pearl ring that my grandfather gave to her on their first anniversary.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Having no feeling, whatsoever. No emotion towards anyone or yourself.
24. What is your favorite occupation?
A writer
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
Love, I love too often and too many.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty
27. Who are your favorite writers?
Hemingway
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Milton's Satan (just for byron)
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
I'm bad with historical figures.
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
Grandmother
31. What are your favorite names?
Addison, Grace, Triston
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Hearing others eat
33. What is your greatest regret?
Losing friendships over the years
34. How would you like to die?
Asleep on the beach, I don't know.
35. What is your motto?
Don't tell me what I can't do.

 

[beetlebum]

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Cloud

i chose to be a body of water, so at least we'll keep in touch via condensation!

 

[Fata Morgana]

losing your toes to frostbite is your idea of perfect happiness? fucking weirdo.

I have boots on, twat.

Plus, Gillian Anderson is English.

 

[Fata Morgana]

Blackleggings, we should combine our mottos:

Don't tell me what I can't do, cunt.

 

[Byron In Exile]

28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Dante's Satan

You must mean Milton's Satan, right?

 

[beetlebum]

You must mean Milton's Satan, right?

or milton's stapler? (it's also red)

 

[Aquagal]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? A day of fishing and swimming, followed by good food, wine and sex.
2. What is your greatest fear? Dying before my children are adults
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I don't forgive easily. Fool me once, shame on you.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Pretentiousness
5. Which living person do you most admire? My Dad
6. What is your greatest extravagance? That I don't have to work outside the home.
7. What is your current state of mind? Planning for tomorrow
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Courage
9. On what occasion do you lie? When someone asks how they look.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? My hands have aged before their time.
11. Which living person do you most despise? Politicians. All of them
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Sense of humor
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Not be a fucking bitch
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Make it work
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? My children
16. When and where were you happiest? Cali beach
17. Which talent would you most like to have? To sing, well.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? More patience
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? A great Mom
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A mermaid
21. Where would you most like to live? Right on the beach, a warm beach.
22. What is your most treasured possession? My pussy.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Grief
24. What is your favorite occupation? Showing off my creative talents.
25. What is your most marked characteristic? My awesome hair and smile.
26. What do you most value in your friends? Their sense of humor
27. Who are your favorite writers? Leon Uris
28. Who is your hero of fiction? Still seeking
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Mother Teresa
30. Who are your heroes in real life? Teachers who LIKE to teach.
31. What are your favorite names? My middle name
32. What is it that you most dislike? Late people, disrespect
33. What is your greatest regret? Not taking voice lessons
34. How would you like to die? In my sleep.
35. What is your motto? literally

 

[blackleggings]

i chose to be a body of water, so at least we'll keep in touch via condensation!

You can condense with me any time.

You must mean Milton's Satan, right?

Yes. Blah, I type fast. I'm taking all of this out. I hate typing from my phone.
And yes, Fata! Love it.

 

[pointless]

I have boots on, twat.

Plus, Gillian Anderson is English.

fine. i'd still fuck her. you know, if she let me and stuff.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Yes. Blah, I type fast. I actually Dante's Inferno- Satan but you're there with me, that's what matters.

"Love, which permits no loved one not to love,
took me so strongly with delight in him
that we are one in Hell, as we were above."

 

[Fata Morgana]

fine. i'd still fuck her. you know, if she let me and stuff.

 

[Bad_Doggie]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Coffee and a cigarette on the balcony at sun rise on a spring morning.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Hunger, hopelessness
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Occasional laziness (although it does feel good at the time)
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Dishonesty
5. Which living person do you most admire?
Those like Blackleggings grandmother,
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
My car
7. What is your current state of mind?
Relaxed
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Temperance
9. On what occasion do you lie?“Of course I won’t cum in your mouth.”
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
It’s not the same person looking at me in the mirror as it was 20 years ago.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
The creator of sponge Bob.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Honesty and humor
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Honesty and humor
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Fur mir ist scheissegal
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My parents
16. When and where were you happiest?
A kid at home
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
To be able to paint or draw.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
To be content and not so driven
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Kids that know their own mind.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
An oak tree and watch the times change
21. Where would you most like to live?
A Scottish castle, with a big fuck off library and a log fire.
22. What is your most treasured possession?
Photos and film of those long gone.
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
I can only imagine it would be the death of your child.
24. What is your favorite occupation?
What I am doing.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
Relentlessness
26. What do you most value in your friends?
No one thing in particular it just has to click.
27. Who are your favorite writers?
Anyone that makes me think, smile or grabs my throat.
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Can’t think of one
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Robbie Burns spider
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
As in Q5
31. What are your favorite names?
Emily, June
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Liars
33. What is your greatest regret?
I’ve had a few, but too few to mention
34. How would you like to die?
Painlessly.
35. What is your motto?
The will to win

Woof!

 

[Mischka]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Having others think of me, and smile. I strive to make my world, and by extension those in it, better for me having been here.
2. What is your greatest fear?
My daughter dying before me. My heart grew exponentially when she was born; the extra capacity for love is shadowed by an irrational fear that she could meet an untimely death.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Procrastination. It's inefficient.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Unquestioning allegiance.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
The people who fulfill this quote: "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so that your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts the law and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." I admire the gardeners of life.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?A professional leap of faith, without the usual financial security net I've previously ensured was there.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Temperance (copying Bad_Doggie on this one).
9. On what occasion do you lie?I don't lie. I will, however, carefully omit should certain things not need to be revealed.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
The freckles on my cheeks. They're not a cute sprinkling; they're irregular and splotchy.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
The religious zealots who want the laws of our secular society to reflect only their narrow viewpoint.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Mr Mischka
16. When and where were you happiest?
Most recently, with my family traveling across Germany, Spain, and France. Before that, in New Orleans with great friends.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
I wish I was better at math. I've got the basics down, but certain advanced financial spreadsheets start to get fuzzy for me. And my old calculus notebooks must have been written by aliens.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I need to get faster on my jerks. I can lift much more weight than I am, but my technique is holding me back.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My life isn't even half complete. I hope to achieve many more things, building on what I've done and branching out in new areas. So I'll get back to you on this one.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Whatever qualifies as the highest sentient being on another inhabited planet.
21. Where would you most like to live?
In a bed and breakfast that I own, on a beach, with a perfect bay to launch a sea kayak.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
I am an animated, and prolific, talker.
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Intelligence
27. Who are your favorite writers?
Mark Twain, Neal Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, David Foster Wallace
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
I wish it was Dorothy Parker, but I'm not curmudgeonly enough.
31. What are your favorite names?
The ones I named my daughter.
34. How would you like to die?
My grandfather died at his 85th birthday party, sitting in his favorite chair, glass of fine Scotch in his hand, surrounded by family and friends laughing and carrying on. He simply closed his eyes and that was it. I'd like that end, but tack on a couple of decades.

 

[IrrelevantFacts]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Perfect happiness is any time or any place my stressors don't bother me and I can be myself without fear of judgement
2. What is your greatest fear? Not being able to protect those I care about
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? A lack of patience
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Laziness
5. Which living person do you most admire? My father
6. What is your greatest extravagance? Like a college student has money to blow on stuff
7. What is your current state of mind? Grounded
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Obedience
9. On what occasion do you lie? When it's in the best interest of all involved parties eg. "Does this shirt make me look fat?"
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? I've grown to love my body over the years
11. Which living person do you most despise? A greedy backstabbing asshole of a (former) friend
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Trustworthiness
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Sincerity
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Depends on who I am hanging around with at the time
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? That one person, you know, the one snoring in the bed behind me
16. When and where were you happiest? Carefree adventures with close friends. Aimlessly wandering some place for no particular reason. Enjoying each others company
17. Which talent would you most like to have? Walking on my hands
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would want a more relaxed temperment
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Keeping the farm boy work ethic but ditching the redneckness
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would want to be a tree, doesn't matter what kind. Just a big one to shelter things less fortunate than myself from what threatens them.
21. Where would you most like to live? forested mountains, Oregon maybe?
22. What is your most treasured possession? I'm not really a things person
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Jack Lewis (1898 - 1963)
24. What is your favorite occupation? Environment Protection of any sort
25. What is your most marked characteristic? An undying pride in anything I do
26. What do you most value in your friends? Loyalty
27. Who are your favorite writers? I don't read books much. I like James Russell Lowells poetry
28. Who is your hero of fiction? Rorschach
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Comparing oneself to historical figures usually just makes your life look kinda glum
30. Who are your heroes in real life? Police (as a generalization, not all of 'em)
31. What are your favorite names? Orrin for a boy Nyx for a girl
32. What is it that you most dislike? People who need work but don't do their jobs
33. What is your greatest regret? Not taking full advantage of every opportunity I have been so lucky to get handed
34. How would you like to die? Happy
35. What is your motto? I'm supposed to have one of those?

 

[butters]

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
5. Which living person do you most admire?
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
7. What is your current state of mind?
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
9. On what occasion do you lie?
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
11. Which living person do you most despise?
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16. When and where were you happiest?
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
21. Where would you most like to live?
22. What is your most treasured possession?
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
24. What is your favorite occupation?
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
26. What do you most value in your friends?
27. Who are your favorite writers?
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
31. What are your favorite names?
32. What is it that you most dislike?
33. What is your greatest regret?
34. How would you like to die?
35. What is your motto?

stuff like this has me wasting time for ages while i give each question deep consideration so i'm marking my place to come back and fill it in. eventually.