When he was 20, the great French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922) attempted to analyze his own character by composing a series of questions designed to reveal
the innermost self. I've switched it up a bit due to a few innovations that have occurred between Prousts' time and ours (ie cinema and popular
music--besides Proust was much more rarefied than I am )
Here are my Proustian revelations:
What is your most marked characteristic?
Empathy
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Honour;Courage
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
The same, of course
What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty and generousity of spirit
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Deceit
What is the trait you must admire in yourself?
My strength of will
What is your favorite occupation?
Making love
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A sunny day, no telephone, a picnic lunch, in the countryside or by the ocean with no one but my loved ones at my side.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Isolation
Which are your favourite cities?
London, Prague, New Orleans, Dublin
In which country would you like to live?
Greece
Who are your favorite writers?
Shakespeare, James Joyce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Eugene O'Neil, Henry James, Edith Wharton, George Orwell, Flann
O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, John Kennedy Toole, Graham Greene, PG Wodehouse, Flannery O'Connor, Emily Bronte, Plutarch, William
Thackeray, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, F. Scott FitzGerald, Agatha Christie...the list could go on forever.
Who are your favourite poets?
Homer, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Allan Poe, T.S. Eliot, Tom Waits, Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath...
Who is your favorite hero of movies and or fiction?
Maximus from Gladiator
Who is your favorite heroine of movies or fiction?
Rebecca Sharp from Thackerays' -Vanity Fair-
Scarlett O'Hara "Gone with the Wind"
Who are your favourite composers?
Mozart, Beethoven, JS Bach, Chopin, Handel, Debussy, Stravinsky
Who are your favourite bands/musicians-Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Nirvana, The Pixies, Kate Bush, The Libertines, Oasis, The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, Blue
Oyster Cult, Eminem, Blur, Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Hole, Foo Fighters, The Ramones, The Velvet Underground, The Clash, The Cult...this list could also go on
forever....
Who are your favourite painters?
Van Gogh, Da Vinci, Holbein, Botticelli, Modigliani, Frida Kahlo
What are your favorite names?
William, Scarlett and Mark
What is it that you most dislike?
Deliberate cruelty
Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to write as though inspired by the Gods
What is your current state of mind?
Contemplative
How would you like to die?
Beloved
What is your motto?
"Don't fuck with me, cowboy, this ain't my first time at the rodeo"~~Anon~~
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I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I'm not really sure what we are doing this weekend. DH and I might go to listen to this free music thing outside
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08/21/08
This isn't as pretty a graphic as some. But I thought you might enjoy seeing what the emblem we wore looked like.
Some people say it's kinda Mickey Mouse. But if you like, you can wear it on your page for awhile, if it would please you to do so. You are a Champion after all, in the Truest sense of the word. And all Champions deserve a patch.
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