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The taker

Tuesday, February 19, 2008


The Marcel Proust Questionnaire
* Me
  • Your most marked characteristic?
A craving to be loved, or, to be more precise, to be caressed and spoiled rather than to be admired
* Being half predictable and half unpredictable. I don’t know if one takes priority over the other.
  • The quality you most like in a man?
Feminine charm
* The sum of the qualities of a man who knows which qualities are important to me (3 in 1)
  • The quality you most like in a woman?
A man's virtues, and frankness in friendship
* Temperance
  • What do you most value in your friends?
Tenderness - provided they possess a physical charm which makes their tenderness worth having
* Authenticity
  • What is your principle defect?
Lack of understanding; weakness of will
* Forgetfulness
  • What is your favorite occupation?
Loving
* Thinking
  • What is your dream of happiness?
Not, I fear, a very elevated one. I really haven't the courage to say what it is, and if I did I should probably destroy it by the mere fact of putting it into words.
  • What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Never to have known my mother or my grandmother
* To forget what is important
  • What would you like to be?
Myself - as those whom I admire would like me to be
* A planet
  • In what country would you like to live?
One where certain things that I want would be realized - and where feelings of tenderness would always be reciprocated. [Proust's underlining]
* Finland
  • What is your favorite color?
Beauty lies not in colors but in their harmony
* Blues
  • What is your favorite flower?
Hers - but apart from that, all
* Lily of the valley
  • What is your favorite bird?
The swallow
* Living
  • Who are your favorite prose writers?
At the moment, Anatole France and Pierre Loti
* At the moment, Khalil Gibran
  • Who are your favorite poets?
Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny
* At the moment, Jay Macpherson and T. S. Eliot
  • Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Hamlet
  • Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Phedre (crossed out) Berenice
  • Who are your favorite composers?
Beethoven, Wagner, Shuhmann
  • Who are your favorite painters?
Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt
  • Who are your heroes in real life?
Monsieur Darlu, Monsieur Boutroux (professors)
  • Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Cleopatra
  • What are your favorite names?
I only have one at a time
* Elliott
  • What is it you most dislike?
My own worst qualities
* Anger. Violence is inconsiderate. Anger and violence is dangerous.
  • What historical figures do you most despise?
I am not sufficiently educated to say
  • What event in military history do you most admire?
My own enlistment as a volunteer!
  • What reform do you most admire?
(no response)
  • What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Will power and irresistible charm
  • How would you like to die?
A better man than I am, and much beloved
* I would like to die knowing that I have asked every question I have ever wanted to ask and that my questions were appreciated by those who attempted to answer them.
  • What is your present state of mind?
Annoyance at having to think about myself in order to answer these questions
  • To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Those that I understand
  • What is your motto?
I prefer not to say, for fear it might bring me bad luck.

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February 19, 2008



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