The Proust Questionnaire
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Sitting on a beach somewhere
2. What is your greatest fear? Failure
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My obsessive tendencies
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Rudeness
5. Which living person do you most admire? My father
6. What is your greatest extravagance? Procrastination
7. What is your current state of mind? Troubled
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Kindness
9. On what occasion do you lie? Most Panicked
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? Almost everything
11. Which living person do you most despise? A co-worker
12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Intellect
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Humour
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Cool Beans
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? Who?- doesn’t matter they’re nothing to me. What?- any novel
16. When and where were you happiest? Age 8 running in the grass with my sister
17. Which talent would you most like to have? Dancing
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would ask to be taller.
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Reading
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? A monument
21. Where would you most like to live? Brazil
22. What is your most treasured possession? My piercings
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Constant wallowing in self-pity
24. What is your favourite occupation? Writing
25. What is your most marked characteristic? Sarcasm
26. What do you most value in your friends? Their candour
27. Who are your favourite writers? Zadie Smith, Edwidge Danticat, Monique Roffey, Rohinton Mistry
28. Who is your hero of fiction? The little boy in the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? Frida Kahlo
30. Who are your heroes in real life? My Parents, My Uncles
31. What are your favourite names? Sophia, Michael, Malcolm, Emma
32. What is it that you most dislike? Too trusting
33. What is your greatest regret? My last 2 relationships & a few friendships
34. How would you like to die? Loved & in a morphine induced state
35. What is your motto? Learn to be kinder to yourself, M.
Posted on March 15, 2011, in Relationships, Uncategorized and tagged Arts, Edwidge Danticat, Literature, Marcel Proust, Rohinton Mistry, World Literature, Yann Martel, Zadie Smith. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
How is Freida Pinto a historical figure?
oh i just noticed that. I meant frida kahlo. I fell in love with her paintings a few years ago.