Proust Questionnaire
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust’s reply was “To be separated from Mama.”) That dark corner where any opportunity for hope is extinguished. Where would you like to live? Somewhere where the green outweighs the gray. What is your idea of earthly happiness? A cocktail of my child's laughter, a nice, sunny 65 degree day, my wife's luxurious hair in the wind, and a book that is light in my hand but heavy on my mind. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? The kind that one pushes aside in hope that the universe will take care of them, which ultimately it does...but by throwing them back in your face. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction? Tyrone Slothrop, Septimus Smith, The Reader from Calvino's Si Una Notte, Jimmy Corrigan Who are your favorite characters in history? Robert Anton Wilson, John F. Kennedy, Aristotle, and Lao Tzu Who are your favorite heroines in real life? Hippolyta, Virginia Woolf, Amelia E