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The Proust questionnaire

on: July 20, 2005, 08:59:11 PM

Does anyone dare to reveal all?

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman

4.   Your biggest flaw

5.   Your favourite occupation

6.   Your chief characteristic

7.   Your idea of happiness

8.   Your idea of misery

9.   Your favourite colour and flower.

10.   If not yourself, who would you be?

11.   Where would you like to live?

12.   Your favourite prose authors?

13.   Your favourite poets?

14.   Your favourite painters and composers?

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life?

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life?

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction?

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?

19.   Your favourite food and drink?

20.   Your favourite names?

21.   Your pet aversion?

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike?

23.   What is your present state of mind?

24.   For what fault have you most toleration?

25.   Your favourite motto?

26.   How would you like to die?

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #1 on: July 20, 2005, 09:28:34 PM

Does anyone dare to reveal all?

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favourite virtue
Kindness

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Kindness

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Kindness
4. Your biggest flaw
Laziness

5. Your favourite occupation
Oh come on ! No need to ask is there ?

6. Your chief characteristic
Serenity and inner peace (according to many others - not necessarily what I feel)

7. Your idea of happiness
I've never had much problem being happy - takes very little to make me content.
Therefore difficult to answer because of so many things - just little things though,
and definitely not material ones beyond a workable minimum.

8. Your idea of misery
Being forced into the constant company of fools, mindless activity and noise

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Next to impossible to answer

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
I don't really want to be anybody else - cannot answer quickly - Hobson's choice

11. Where would you like to live?
Where I live now is just fine

12. Your favourite prose authors?
Huxley, Joyce, Maupassant... but many, many others

13. Your favourite poets?
Eliot, but I am not well read in this area

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
The naive painters, the luminists, the impressionists
After myself, Waller

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
My father
Fred Hollows

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
My mother

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
The surfeit of choice problem strikes again

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Cannot readily answer

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Jambalaya aux chaurices
Tea probably

20. Your favourite names?
Victor
For some reason I cannot settle on a favourite female name

21. Your pet aversion?
Crowds and shopping malls

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
Oh, any pompous, cruel ones who forced ideas and things on people and caused widespread bother - Napoleon, Hitler, Jesus, Mohammed. Any people who promulgated cruel actions and ideas - thousands of them. Initially I stuck Buddha on the list but on reflection he differed from the other motley crew in that he wasn't cruel - so I removed him.

23. What is your present state of mind?
Calm

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
Infatuation

25. Your favourite motto?
Cannot readily answer just one

26. How would you like to die?
Nice quick heart attack while sleeping or doing something I enjoy

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #2 on: July 20, 2005, 10:06:06 PM

Quote from: ted on July 20, 2005, 09:28:34 PM

Does anyone dare to reveal all?

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favourite virtue
Loyalty

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Reasoning

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Nurture

4. Your biggest flaw
Unorganized

5. Your favourite occupation
Dog Training

6. Your chief characteristic
Perserverance, Leadership

7. Your idea of happiness?
Living in Acceptance, not to be confused with tolerance.

8. Your idea of misery
Lying to ones self..

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Hunter Green, The Tomato <-- thats right

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
Nils Johan

11. Where would you like to live?
Suburbs of So-Cal

12. Your favourite prose authors?
im not well read in this area

13. Your favourite poets?
Frost himself!..Saul Williams..Daniel Paul

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
painters= dont know
composers=mozart and chopin/schumann

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Todd Oumi

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
my sister
17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Batman

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
April from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtels cause of her rediculously awesome yellow jumpsuit

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Food= carnitas burrito with extra jalapenos and guacamole
Drink=iced water

20. Your favourite names?
Hugh Jazz, Ivanna Humpalot, and Mike Hunt
For some reason I cannot settle on a favourite female name

21. Your pet aversion?
Ghetto Youth..or Suburban Kids living to Ghetto youth's "cool" expectations

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
hitler, eazy e

23. What is your present state of mind?
hungry

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
lazyness

25. Your favourite motto?
newspapers cost a dollar but hugs are free

26. How would you like to die?
swift bullet to the brain while in a state of complete instanity after murdering every single person i'v ever hated

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #3 on: July 20, 2005, 10:44:30 PM

self doesnt like easy questions

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #4 on: July 21, 2005, 12:21:49 AM

1. Your favourite virtue
-Respect

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
-Considerate

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
-Being able to laugh at herself

4. Your biggest flaw
-Temper

5. Your favourite occupation
-Pilot

6. Your chief characteristic
-Awsomne friend you can count on

7. Your idea of happiness
-My wife giving me a backrub while we watch a movie.

8. Your idea of misery
-Being poor

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
-Blue - flower(you got to be kidding)

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
-A beautifull, slutty woman

11. Where would you like to live?
-Australia

12. Your favourite prose authors?
-Wrong guy

13. Your favourite poets?
-Really wrong guy

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
Picasso - Beethoven

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
-None. Don't believe in hero's (Jackie Robinson I respect alot)

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
-Same thing

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
-Spiderman ( It's that song)

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
- Wonder Woman of course

19. Your favourite food and drink?
-Pork Shops - Gin and Tonic

20. Your favourite names?
-Amanda

21. Your pet aversion?
-Traffic

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
-Hitler, Idi Amin, Lenin and all those idiots

23. What is your present state of mind?
-Tired

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
--lack of experience

25. Your favourite motto?
Kill the Weak and the Strong and let the Ultimate Survive

26. How would you like to die?
Old......very old.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #5 on: July 21, 2005, 01:15:43 AM

1. Your favourite virtue
respect and compassion

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
understanding and respectful

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
appreciating friends

4. Your biggest flaw
getting overly hurt at friends who don't seem to appreciate me when chances are i'm making it up

5. Your favourite occupation
teacher and musician

6. Your chief characteristic
always there when needed an willing to help

7. Your idea of happiness
doing what i love

8. Your idea of misery
not doing what i love

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
orange, though sometimes pink
probably roses, or daffodils

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
a freakishly good cellist

11. Where would you like to live?
in a nice house on the north shore, alternatively germany once i can speak german

12. Your favourite prose authors?
i have no idea

13. Your favourite poets?
don't really have a fave- any we studied at school i'm now scarred by!

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
painters: renoir, rembrandt, dali
composers: beethoven, prokofiev, bach, bartok, brahms, debussy, monteverdi...the list goes on!

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
i don't really see people as heroes

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
same as above

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
mmmm wolverine from x-men!!

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
myself, in the story of ben dover the mailman and his crazy stories (VERY long story)

19. Your favourite food and drink?
chocolate, apple juice, asian food yum stirfries and sushi

20. Your favourite names?
giselle, aurora, rem, leigh

21. Your pet aversion?
people who are ignorant and pay others out for not being 'cool' enough

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
the usual, hitler etc.

23. What is your present state of mind?
sort of contemplative now, thanks to all these in-depth quizzes

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
running late

25. Your favourite motto?
whatever you are, be a good one

26. How would you like to die?
don't really care, provided it's not when i'm like 100 or something really really old, more around 70-something i think

now it's your turn bernhard!

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #6 on: July 21, 2005, 02:25:57 AM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue
Charity

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man
Nobility, loyalty, respect

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman
same as above

4.   Your biggest flaw
erm <_< impatience and a quick temper.

5.   Your favourite occupation
playing piano

6.   Your chief characteristic
ummmm....... dunno.... I asked someone and he said "asking questions." <_<

7.   Your idea of happiness
living a good life and being with who I love, doing what we love together

8.   Your idea of misery
going against what I believe in

9.   Your favourite colour and flower.
hrm... atm.. red. deep red roses.

10.   If not yourself, who would you be?
Eowyn or Arwen. duuuuuuh.

11.   Where would you like to live?
Somewhere cultured.

12.   Your favourite prose authors?
Tolkien, Dickens, Jane Austen

13.   Your favourite poets?
Shakespeare, Longfellow

14.   Your favourite painters and composers?
Monet, bach/mozart/beethoven/schumann/chopin/granados/de falla

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life?
what... there are heroes IRL? you're kidding me...

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life?
^same as above

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Aragorn, Beren, Faramir, Percival (king arthur legends lol <_<), Darcy, Tommy Traddles (yes weird list)

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Eowyn, Luithien, Arwen, Elizabeth Bennet, Agnes (david copperfield)

19.   Your favourite food and drink?
hrmmmmm.... chocolate and chocolate milk? haha

20.   Your favourite names?
girls: Katerina, Elena, Catherine, Gabriela, Antoinette, Juliet, Miranda, Martina...
boys: Thomas, Anthony, Paul, Joachim (yeah random <_<), Steven...

21.   Your pet aversion?
Stupidity and arrogance- especially when they're combined.

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike?
all the bad guys, esp. the traitors.

23.   What is your present state of mind?
kinda.. bored. and a little down I guess (brought on by 2nd mov of tchaik's 5th symphony, oh boy...)

24.   For what fault have you most toleration?
temper. lol

25.   Your favourite motto?
"Perseverance leads to the goal."

26.   How would you like to die?
Peacefully.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #7 on: July 21, 2005, 04:12:02 AM

1. Your favourite virtue
Honesty and selflessness

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Sense of humour, patience and fidelity

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Understanding nature..thats we are able to connect and communicate easily

4. Your biggest flaw
Terrible temper, naive

5. Your favourite occupation
Teacher...its my only so far

6. Your chief characteristic
Making people laugh, higly sensitive

7. Your idea of happiness
doing what i love...(taken from Tash)

8. Your idea of misery
Denied of attaining your dreams

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
lavender....hibiscus

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
a comedian

11. Where would you like to live?
Japan!!!!

12. Your favourite prose authors?
Wouldn't know

13. Your favourite poets?
To be honest..i havent gotten around to really appreciating poetry as yet

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
painters: Monet
composers: chopin and rachmaninoff

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Firefighters in action during 9/11 and anyone who aided in the London Bombings...these are the real heroes of today

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
Rosa Parks...refused to relocate in a bus to a white man and thus got arrested. That took courage

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Well they are not real....then i dont have a real answer

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
same as above

19. Your favourite food and drink?
food- roti and pizza
Drink-water

20. Your favourite names?
Liam and Emma

21. Your pet aversion?
Insensitive people who intentionally hurt others

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
Taliban government, Hitler , Slave owners and the Japanese who took part in world war 11 (other than that dark time in Japanese history i love Japan's culture to death)

23. What is your present state of mind?
Frustrated...my music teacher left to return to Japan and i fear i'll neve have a teacher as influential as him

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
I try to be as tolerant as possible...afterall we're human we live in different environments under certain circumstances. Therefore i try to flexible (jeez i feel as though i am filling out my profile for an online dating service....maybe it is...bernhard tricked us

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25. Your favourite motto?
1 % inspiration, 99% perspiration

26. How would you like to die?
surrounded by my loved ones

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #8 on: July 21, 2005, 04:15:40 AM

Quote from: bernhard on July 20, 2005, 08:59:11 PM

Does anyone dare to reveal all?

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue - love (charity)

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man - integrity, dependability, smart & hard working

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman - don't care about the women (ok. homliness if she's going to be a maid in the house)

4.   Your biggest flaw - i see dust

5.   Your favourite occupation - dreaming

6.   Your chief characteristic - idealistic

7.   Your idea of happiness - travelling, family & friends, being with the cat on a quiet evening while reading a book.

8.   Your idea of misery - three backseat drivers (one saying right, one saying left, one saying 'watch out')

9.   Your favourite colour and flower - blue or green or blue green or turqoise, roses

10.   If not yourself, who would you be? nobody

11.   Where would you like to live? on a hill overlooking an equestrian riding center, behind the home an aviary, beside a bike trail, near a lake or river with canoes for rent, and hiking trails in close proximity.

12.   Your favourite prose authors? prose. hmmm. you mean like writers? it's been a while, but emily dickensen iguess.

13.   Your favourite poets? shakespeare, robert lewis stevenson, robert frost, some unknown poets that make sense.

14.   Your favourite painters and composers? degas, jp david, michalangelo (sketches)
pretty much all the composers - but maybe beethoven the most.

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life? lance armstrong, children who have cancer or lukemia, children who have gone through poverty or had to go through withdrawl at birth and deal with difficult childhoods, war veterans, disabled.

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life? princess diana

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction? james bond

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?

19.   Your favourite food and drink? salad, lemonade

20.   Your favourite names? egor, modest, enrique, camille, cecile, ivana, ivan, alexis, michael

21.   Your pet aversion? i love all animals

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike? napoleon (following beethoven's footsteps - when he found out napoleon crowned himself emperor).

23.   What is your present state of mind? tired

24.   For what fault have you most toleration? obesity

25.   Your favourite motto? chocolate is good for you!

26.   How would you like to die? with my husband holding one hand, chocolate in my other hand, and my children whispering i love you in my ears.

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #9 on: July 21, 2005, 05:30:19 AM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue - Compassion

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man - Respect, charisma, chivalry

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman - Beauty, kindness, fun-lovingness

4.   Your biggest flaw - I'm an ***.

5.   Your favourite occupation - This is a piano forum, after all.

6.   Your chief characteristic - Intelligence, responsibility

7.   Your idea of happiness - Being in love.

8.   Your idea of misery - Being out of love.

9.   Your favourite colour and flower - Dark blue I suppose? Flower? Pish.

10.   If not yourself, who would you be? - There are so many, but I'd like to make a name of myself.

11.   Where would you like to live? - Wouldn't mind being in a Juilliard dormitory. or Mannes, or Boston Conservatory, we'll see.

12.   Your favourite prose authors? - Solzhenitsyn, Dickens

13.   Your favourite poets? - Robert Frost and W.H. Auden

14.   Your favourite painters and composers? - Painting, meh. Beethoven!!!

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life? - Lance Armstrong, Bruce Edwards (Tom Watson's caddy), Payne Stewart, FDR

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life? - Mmmm. Pass.

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction? - I always liked the Ninja Turtles

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction? - Pass

19.   Your favourite food and drink? - Too hard.

20.   Your favourite names? - Dexter, George

21.   Your pet aversion? - Dont' like dogs too much.

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike? - Stalin. Reagan.

23.   What is your present state of mind? - Tired, as usual.

24.   For what fault have you most toleration? - Compulsion

25.   Your favourite motto? - LIVE STRONG

26.   How would you like to die? - Softly and assuredly.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #10 on: July 21, 2005, 12:07:09 PM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue
Respect

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man
Chivalry

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman
Obedience (sorry, girls, it's true, I completely envy my sister-in-law, who is a wonderful woman and so obedient, I can never be like her, and I admire this quality in her so much)

4.   Your biggest flaw
Impatience

5.   Your favourite occupation
Musician, Artist, Writer, Journalist

6.   Your chief characteristic
Curiosity

7.   Your idea of happiness
Doing what I love.

8.   Your idea of misery
Not loving anything or anyone.

9.   Your favourite colour and flower.
Red.
Tulips.

10.   If not yourself, who would you be?
Mother Teresa (when she was alive)

11.   Where would you like to live?
Quite like where I am now (northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia)

12.   Your favourite prose authors?
Maupassant, Hemmingway, Austen

13.   Your favourite poets?
John Donne

14.   Your favourite painters and composers?
Don't know anything about painting.
J.S. Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Bartok, Dohnanyi, Prokofiev.

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life?
- hmm... can't think of any!

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life?
My mother, my sister-in-law

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Wolverine from X-men (I was shocked to read that tash choose him too!!!)

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Sailor Moon

19.   Your favourite food and drink?
Turtle and turtle soup

20.   Your favourite names?
Elizabeth, Catherine, Katerina
Michael, Nicholas

21.   Your pet aversion?
spiders

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike?
Mao

23.   What is your present state of mind?
Fatigue

24.   For what fault have you most toleration?
curiosity

25.   Your favourite motto?
There are no mad dogs or bad dogs, just sloppy handlers (the principle of our dog training club)

26.   How would you like to die?
I always thought I would die in a car accident... I don't know if that's the way I'd like to die, but then I don't know that there's any particular way I'd like to die.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #11 on: July 21, 2005, 04:14:30 PM

1. Your favourite virtue Honesty. Respect.

2. Your favourite qualities in a man Friendliness, sense of humour, intelligence

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman Same thing, plus a lack of overt girliness is always a plus point

4. Your biggest flaw I am easily the most disorganised person on the planet, and I constantly find myself daydreaming even when I'm trying not to. It's a bit worrying, actually...

5. Your favourite occupation Writer

6. Your chief characteristic Idealism

7. Your idea of happiness A world in which people are simply decent to each other without there needing to be anything in it for themselves

8. Your idea of misery The world which I think we're going to have if we keep going the way we are

9. Your favourite colour and flower. Indigo, and ... hmmm. I don't really know much about flowers. Roses, then. Because they're a nice shape.

10. If not yourself, who would you be? Someone exactly like me.

11. Where would you like to live? Somewhere near water and scenic. Where doesn't bother me.

12. Your favourite prose authors? JK Rowling

13. Your favourite poets? Keats

14. Your favourite painters and composers? John William Waterhouse and Van Gogh, and Chopin and Beethoven

15. Your favourite heroes in real life? Don't really have any

16. Your favourite heroines in real life? Ditto

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction? Faramir and Sam from LotR

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction? Probably Elizabeth Bennett from P&P

19. Your favourite food and drink? Macaroni cheese and chocolate, preferably not on the same plate

20. Your favourite names? I've always liked Catherine

21. Your pet aversion? Any sort of insect and little yappy dogs

22. What characters in history do you most dislike? Henry VIII. I'm fascinated by him but he was a nasty, nasty man. I realise there are people who have done far worse but he's the one who for whatever reason really gets me.

23. What is your present state of mind? Stressed. I need a holiday.

24. For what fault have you most toleration? Blunt honesty. Probably because I'm the complete opposite.

25. Your favourite motto? I don't do mottos, really.

26. How would you like to die? I'm torn between in bed at night and doing something worthy of being remembered for. Can't decide!

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #12 on: July 21, 2005, 08:17:44 PM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favourite virtue – honesty

2. Your favourite qualities in a man – honesty

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman – confidence

4. Your biggest flaw – procrastination

5. Your favourite occupation – photographer

6. Your chief characteristic – noncommittal

7. Your idea of happiness – making photographs of beautiful landscape

8. Your idea of misery – being in a position where I feel I have no options

9. Your favourite colour and flower. – Blue, don’t have a favorite flower

10. If not yourself, who would you be? – I’ll stick with myself, at least I know what I’m getting

11. Where would you like to live? – in a small mountain village in Chile at the confluence of the Rio Teno and the Rio Claro.

12. Your favourite prose authors? – Not sure I have a favorite author, but my favorite book is The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

13. Your favourite poets? – Don’t have any.

14. Your favourite painters and composers? – My daughter, Chopin

15. Your favourite heroes in real life? – The guy who saved my life.

16. Your favourite heroines in real life? – Don’t have any.

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction? – Thomas Covenant

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction? – Pollyanna

19. Your favourite food and drink? – Garlic shrimp and Cabernet Sauvignon

20. Your favourite names? – Don’t have any

21. Your pet aversion? – I’m averse to pets of any kind.

22. What characters in history do you most dislike? – Those with an insatiable lust for power.

23. What is your present state of mind? – Open

24. For what fault have you most toleration? – laziness

25. Your favourite motto? – Do you realize you’re trading your life everyday for what you do? Is the trade worth it?

26. How would you like to die? – In all honesty, I’d rather not die. But, given no other option, I’d prefer to go peacefully in my sleep.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #13 on: July 21, 2005, 08:48:19 PM

1. Your favourite virtue

Loyality, compassion, wisdom, humility, relativation.

2. Your favourite qualities in a man

Loyality, intelligence, sense of humor

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman

Loyality, intelligence, caring

4. Your biggest flaw

Lack of taking the initiative

5. Your favourite occupation

Music teacher, composer

6. Your chief characteristic

Seriousness

7. Your idea of happiness

Finding serenity

8. Your idea of misery

being torn apart mentally

9. Your favourite colour and flower.

Blue, Passiflora caerulea

10. If not yourself, who would you be?

How can I not be myself? Maybe one of my friends

11. Where would you like to live?

A quiet place with very temperate weather. It shouldn't get too warm. And there should be some broadleaf forests. Some hills and water would also be nice. The less signs of people the better.

12. Your favourite prose authors?

Hard one. Probably Asimov or Conrad

13. Your favourite poets?

No poetry for me.

14. Your favourite painters and composers?

Vermeer, J.S. Bach, Scriabin, Liszt and Barber

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?

There are no heroes in real life. If you have some you have made a mistake.

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?

Same thing

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?

Probably Data in TNG. It's hard to find character in fiction that really appeal to me. Most are too macho, too active, too perfect, too ideologic, too eager to win. I rather see someone defeat a problem through relativation or self sacrifice. In a sense not defeating but subdueing the problem. Some kind of exalted, transcendental person, detached from reality. I guess Data comes close since he isn't human. But this also means he is kind of cheating since he doesn't possess these characteristics because he just doesn't have anything there.

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?

This is even harder. Since I am male I relate to males. Actually I feel that I am forgetting someone that appealed to me in a book or movie. I have no idea how I would like to be as a woman. Would I want a family or focus on my profession. Probably the first, but that is so not me so I cannot really relate to it.

19. Your favourite food and drink?

Vegetarian lasagna with vegetables or heavily spiced rice mihoen (thin noodles) with vegetables. And tonic or lemon juice.

20. Your favourite names?

Sanne, Eleanor, Scott, Esther, Alexander, Isablle, Ethan.

And a lot of very strange names from all kinds of cultures that would be too strange to have as a kid.

And if someone knows a really nice male name starting with a 'D', please tell me.

21. Your pet aversion?

Animals should be in nature. But keeping dogs or cats inside is really nasty. All those hairs everwhere. I would rather not eat in a place like that.

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?

I can't say I like many people in history. It would be too hard to dislike all those people. So I can't point out people. But I agree with most people named.

(Except; Jesus, he seemed like a nice person. You can't blame the cruelty of christianity on him. You could even make a care that he argued against hierarchical religion based on the bible. Mohammed, because I don't know enough about him and Siddartha Gautama (Buddha), why the hell is he in there anyway? Are you confusing buddhism with hinduism?

ps. The people that said Lenin only, you probably meant Stalin. And for the people that named Hitler, Stalin and Mao killed more people. Poll Pot killed 1/3 of his country's population. Is he ruled a big country he would killed more than all of them together.)

23. What is your present state of mind?

I can't really answer this question. I feel good and normal.

24. For what fault have you most toleration?

Being naive

25. Your favourite motto?

I don't have any

26. How would you like to die?

While saving someone else.

ps. Did Bernard forget to fill out his list? Or is he just being rude?

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Reply #14 on: July 21, 2005, 11:11:20 PM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue - Loyality

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man - Feminity

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman - Confidence

4.   Your biggest flaw - I don't listen

5.   Your favourite occupation- Whatever it is, it wont feel like an occupation

6.   Your chief characteristic- persistance

7.   Your idea of happiness - it involves music

8.   Your idea of misery - Having to live with my parents again

9.   Your favourite colour and flower - Red, Lavender

10.   If not yourself, who would you be? - I am very happy to be myself

11.   Where would you like to live? I'm trying to figure that out right now

12.   Your favourite prose authors? I don't pick favorites, i pick my least favorites

13.   Your favourite poets? see above

14.   Your favourite painters and composers?
Klimt, Schumann (these aren't my favorites, just prefered right now. It will change.)

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life? none

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life? Clara Schumann

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction? people who wrote fiction?

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?

19.   Your favourite food and drink? Sushi , red wine (not necessarly together)

20.   Your favourite names? Anything not Biblical

21.   Your pet aversion? Birds

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike?
Anyone who imposes their idiotic idology upon its subjects

23.   What is your present state of mind? A bit stressed, but optimistic

24.   For what fault have you most toleration?
In myself? I would have to say lazyness

25.   Your favourite motto?
"tradition is laziness" Gustav Mahler

26.   How would you like to die?
Very old and wise.

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Reply #15 on: July 21, 2005, 11:20:32 PM

HE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE
1.   Your favourite virtue
virtue
2.   Your favourite qualities in a man
honesty
3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman
caring heart
4.   Your biggest flaw
control freak
5.   Your favourite occupation
music minister
6.   Your chief characteristic
good memorizer
7.   Your idea of happiness
being married and having a nice home with kids
8.   Your idea of misery
being alone
9.   Your favourite colour and flower.
blue and tulips
10.   If not yourself, who would you be?
myself is fine
11.   Where would you like to live?
Wherever God leads me
12.   Your favourite prose authors?
no clue
13.   Your favourite poets?
still no clue
14.   Your favourite painters and composers?
van gogh and shostakovich
15.   Your favourite heroes in real life?
don't know
16.   Your favourite heroines in real life?
my fiance
17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction?
dont know
18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?
don't know
19.   Your favourite food and drink?
grilled chicken and water
20.   Your favourite names?
Boliver
21.   Your pet aversion?
dunno
22.   What characters in history do you most dislike?
the stupid ones
23.   What is your present state of mind?
pretty good
24.   For what fault have you most toleration?
old age
25.   Your favourite motto?
onward and upward
26.   How would you like to die?
quick and painless

Boliver

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Reply #16 on: July 22, 2005, 12:36:49 AM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favourite virtue
hope, justice, respect, understanding
2. Your favourite qualities in a man
understanding
3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
understanding
4. Your biggest flaw
i guess i'll find out...
5. Your favourite occupation
anything music related
6. Your chief characteristic
sensitivity
7. Your idea of happiness
virtuosity
8. Your idea of misery
being ignored
9. Your favourite colour and flower.
grey and green, the columbine, daisy, sunflower...etc.??
10. If not yourself, who would you be?
i dunno
11. Where would you like to live?
New York City
12. Your favourite prose authors?
Burgess (sp?), Bradbury, Orwell, etc.
13. Your favourite poets?
Wilde, Michaux, Gascoyne (!!!), Giraud
14. Your favourite painters and composers?
Dali, Picasso, Kandinsky, Pollack, Magritte...Stravinsky, Lutoslawksi, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Debussy, Ligeti etc. etc. etc. etc.
15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
i dunno
16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
i dunno
17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
i dunno
18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
i dunno
19. Your favourite food and drink?
pizza...water
20. Your favourite names?
none
21. Your pet aversion?
ignorance
22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
i dunno
23. What is your present state of mind?
contemplative, surreal
24. For what fault have you most toleration?
i dunno
25. Your favourite motto?
i dunno
26. How would you like to die?
slow but painless

Best wishes,
DLu.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #17 on: July 23, 2005, 10:28:49 PM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1.   Your favourite virtue
Sense of justice.

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man
Loyalty.

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman
Loyalty.

4.   Your biggest flaw
Laziness.

5.   Your favourite occupation
Musician/composer.

6.   Your chief characteristic
Independent, strong-minded.

7.   Your idea of happiness
Piece of mind = Creative activity (playing/listening to/analyzing music and composing), hobbies (sports, books, TV) and a joyful family life (wife+children) in perfect balance in a nice big house with all the stuff I want.

8.   Your idea of misery
Loss of someone close or them suffering.

9.   Your favourite colour and flower.
Blue or black. Black roses.

10.   If not yourself, who would you be?
No one else...no no no. But if I had to...well, Arthur Rubinstein said he was the happiest person he'd ever met, so I'll go with him.

11.   Where would you like to live?
Right here in northern Scandinavia, I need to experience FOUR SEASONS.

12.   Your favourite prose authors?
G.R.R. Martin, J.R.R. Tolkien, T. Pratchett, F.G. Bengtsson, F. Nietzsche

13.   Your favourite poets?
Snorre Sturlasson :-]

14.   Your favourite painters and composers?
painters: T. Kittelsen; Ivar, Dag & Ida Ugelstad; John Howe, Alan Lee, Kristian Wåhlin
composers: J.S. Bach, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, E. Rautavaara, J. Mäntyjärvi

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life?
The above-mentioned. My father.

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life?
My mother.

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Fingolfin (Silmarillion), Túrin Turambar (Silmarillion)

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Lúthien Tinúviel (Silmarillion)

19.   Your favourite food and drink?
Food: Salmon + shrimps cooked in créme cuisine with pasta and lemon slices.
Drink: Remy Martin cognac, Karhu 4,6% beer and milk.

20.   Your favourite names?
Ida (my fiance), Tor & Saga (the to-be names of our children.)

21.   Your pet aversion?
Birds. Wings in cages can't be fun.

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike?
Christians who forced their religion on others and slew the ones who wouldn't change their beliefs.

23.   What is your present state of mind?
On vacation = lazy.

24.   For what fault have you most toleration?
Running late.

25.   Your favourite motto?
Just do it.

26.   How would you like to die?
At a high age, lying in my bed at home surrounded by my numerous children and grand children; the summer sun is shining in through the window; my mind is at ease awaiting the transition; one of my grand children is playing the Goldberg Variations, the most divine and pure music ever written; and with the last chord of the aria's recapitulation, I fade away.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #18 on: August 22, 2005, 10:24:59 PM

Quote from: bernhard on July 20, 2005, 08:59:11 PM

1.   Your favourite virtue ??

2.   Your favourite qualities in a man - furry

3.   Your favourite qualities in a woman - beautiful, and not bitchy

4.   Your biggest flaw - im proud

5.   Your favourite occupation - piano playing

6.   Your chief characteristic - pianist

7.   Your idea of happiness - simplicity

8.   Your idea of misery - nooo i can't play PIANO

9.   Your favourite colour and flower. blue

10.   If not yourself, who would you be? me

11.   Where would you like to live? here

12.   Your favourite prose authors? ..

13.   Your favourite poets? ..

14.   Your favourite painters and composers? Liszt and Rachmaninoff.

15.   Your favourite heroes in real life? Hamelin

16.   Your favourite heroines in real life? Argerich

17.   Your favourite heroes in fiction? Hamelin (he is a superhuman )

18.   Your favourite heroines in fiction? don't know.

19.   Your favourite food and drink? tough choice $:-\$ pizza hamburger/ pepsi cream soda

20.   Your favourite names? ..

21.   Your pet aversion? ..

22.   What characters in history do you most dislike? Hitler

23.   What is your present state of mind? peace.

24.   For what fault have you most toleration? i don't know i forgive easily i guess..

25.   Your favourite motto? ..

26.   How would you like to die? At the end of the rach 3 what a legend would I be.

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Reply #19 on: August 23, 2005, 05:53:26 PM

1. Your favourite virtue - considering others before self

2. Your favourite qualities in a man - men tend to be direct and not play games, you can talk w/ them about all sorts of stuff that most women have no interest in.

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman - same as for men, but that's hard to find in women

4. Your biggest flaw - can be contentious :-b

5. Your favourite occupation - being a wife & mom, writing, piano

6. Your chief characteristic - oddball; going against the flow

7. Your idea of happiness - spending time w/ family

8. Your idea of misery - utter aloneness

9. Your favourite colour and flower. - purple; morning glory

10. If not yourself, who would you be? - q is too weird to contemplate

11. Where would you like to live? - 25 acres out in the country in a custom-built house with a well & septic & solar power.

12. Your favourite prose authors? - Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Eliot

13. Your favourite poets? Shakespeare, Herrick, Keats, L'Engle, Mitchell (Joni)

14. Your favourite painters and composers? Homer, Renoir, Dzigurski; Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Debussy

15. Your favourite heroes in real life? God, Winston Churchill, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Billy Graham, 9/11 passengers and crew

16. Your favourite heroines in real life? Mother Theresa, Susan B. Anthony

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction? Pierre in War and Peace, Sir Percy Blakeney a.k.a. The Scarlet Pimpernel, Dmitri in Brothers Karamazov (yeah I know, he's sort of an anti-hero), Spiderman

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction? Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, Scarlett O'Hara, probably others I can't remember

19. Your favourite food and drink? dark Swiss chocolate, chianti

20. Your favourite names? my husband and kids' names

21. Your pet aversion? anything sticky or slimy, especially if it's on the floor

22. What characters in history do you most dislike? tyrants and despots in general

23. What is your present state of mind? calm

24. For what fault have you most toleration? absentmindedness

25. Your favourite motto? whatever it takes

26. How would you like to die? peacefully of old age, at home & surrounded by loved ones

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Reply #20 on: August 23, 2005, 06:28:26 PM

1. Your favourite virtue
Trust

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Understanding

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Honesty

4. Your biggest flaw
Hmm, to paraphrase from Jin - "and to y'all that didn't wish me success / here's my biggest flaw: I still wish y'all the best"

5. Your favourite occupation
Unemployed, but self-sufficient.

6. Your chief characteristic
Determination

7. Your idea of happiness
When facticity and circumstance is aligned with personal desire and ambition.

8. Your idea of misery
When facticity and circumstance is directly opposed with personal desire and ambition =/

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Blue. Don't know sh*t about flowers, how would I know?

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
I'd be.. someone else? This a trick question? If it's asking who would I want to be - get the hell outta here. I'm happy being me.

11. Where would you like to live?
Sydney, Australia, again... NYC is great, but I miss home.

12. Your favourite prose authors?
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Orwell, Margaret Atwood; don't know if it'd count but Søren Kierkegaard

13. Your favourite poets?
Willy Shakespeare (the sonnets are like whoa), W.H. Auden, Tennyson

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to the visual arts, so I won't answer the first; composers - in no particular order - Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninov; Chopin; Liszt; Scriabin; Brahms; Alkan; etc

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Wang Weilin

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
Mother Teresa

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Wong Fei-Hung

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Elaine Risley

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Siew Mai, A&W Root Beer

20. Your favourite names?
Hmmmmmmmm...

21. Your pet aversion?
Work

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
Too many to list

23. What is your present state of mind?
:-/

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
Irrationality?

25. Your favourite motto?
(paraphrased) "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." Maybe not a motto, but as something that is ridiculously true, I'm consistently amazed by its factual accuracy =/

26. How would you like to die?
Quickly, silently, with my family

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Reply #21 on: August 24, 2005, 12:08:22 AM

love reading the answers.

1. Your favourite virtue
Independence.

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Experience.

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Experience.

4. Your biggest flaw
Self-absorption.

5. Your favourite occupation
Composing. And teaching. And composing!

6. Your chief characteristic
Contained.

7. Your idea of happiness
Water flowing nearby a piano, some green surroundings.

8. Your idea of misery
Frustation, anything remotely related to it.

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Black. Hum, orchids. No black orchids I'm afraid

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
No chance.

11. Where would you like to live?
Anywhere remote. Some people would be good. My cat, undoubtedly.

12. Your favourite prose authors?
Prose: Jean Genet, no arguing.

13. Your favourite poets?
T.S. Eliot. Oh boy this post is getting darker,

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
Bach and Scriabin, alternating non stop. Munch would be the right answer.

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Parents count?

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
Same as previous.

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
I'd rather have an anti-hero anyday.

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Ditto.

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Jägermeister and deep fried mexican beans! Caramba, lol.

20. Your favourite names?
Frida. As in Kahlo

21. Your pet aversion?
Most reptiles, small dogs too.

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
Every single pianist in history that had a performance and never taught a lesson.

23. What is your present state of mind?
Tired and ready.

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
Oblivion.

25. Your favourite motto?
Paraphrasing german writing - "Music, now music has that sacred quality, music lets you die, in reality, from its experience. And after the music is gone, you come back, whole." Nietzsche.

26. How would you like to die?
Innocent. Doesn't matter how.

geez this made me look way more troubled that I really am, lol.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #22 on: August 28, 2005, 11:27:27 AM

I see that Bernhard hasnt revealed all...

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favourite virtue
Honesty

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Selflessness, good will, a genuine desire to help others

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Honesty, the ability to laugh, strong principles (always willing to do the right thing, no matter if she is not caught)

4. Your biggest flaw
I tend to be very inconsiderate of other peoples feelings or opinions with realizing it

5. Your favourite occupation
Playing the piano.... ok ok!!! I give, its actually playing profesional Magic the Gathering (yes, Im a geek, I know)

6. Your chief characteristic
Introversion

7. Your idea of happiness
No worries. A state in which you are able to do what you want, when you want without any consideration of money or health.

8. Your idea of misery
Being with stupid people, being in physical pain

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Blue - Grayish blue. Tulips

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
I have no idea how to answer this. If I were not myself, at the very least Id like to have a lot of money

11. Where would you like to live?
Somewhere comfortable, urban but relatively quiet

12. Your favourite prose authors?
I could go all artsy, but I really must admit Im a big fan of JK Rawling, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Tolkien.... In short, anything I can get my hands on and read in a single night of insomnia

13. Your favourite poets?
Elliot, no doubt about it. I also like Cummings quite a lot. In spanish I like very much Jaime Sabines, though havent cracked open anything by him since I was 14, so maybe that has passed with time.

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
Goya, Picasso... I tend to like everything actually, depends on the painting and the composition.

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Ghandi. I think this is one of the most reasonable civilized persons in the history of humanity... he must be rolling in his grave. His way of being truly free and truly brave, in my opinion is one of the only times in history when a political movement has actually done justice to the moral principles of the great religions. He freed a country through reason alone. By showing others the wrong of their ways. I cant imagine something braver than what he did; much much more brave than going out and slaying people for the same reason.

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
Mother Theresa. Even if her religious order and the church have taken a big advantage of her image, that doesnt change the fact that any person who leaves everything so she can give to others shoulg be recognized as a hero.

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Tons of them... any one of the thousands of identical characters in cheap thrillers and novels. The common guy who ends up fighting an evil monster/corporation/wizard/psycho wife/serial killer/lord of darkness/terrorist organization/Russian mob/leftover warring spies from the cold war/neo-nazi cult leader.... etc. Typically the main character in most of the trashy stuff I so much like to read..

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
See above.

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Cheese, and lemonade.

20. Your favourite names?
Quitzia

21. Your pet aversion?
Children. Theyre annoying buggers.

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
There are so many to choose from... should I say Hitler, the whole German people? Wagner actually.... Genghis Khan? Alexander the great? I tend to dislike "great" leaders and generals.

23. What is your present state of mind?
I have Insomnia and Im actually answering a questionare.

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
I dont have a lot of tolerance for faults, but I tend to be a lot more tolerant than I should with many people close to me.

25. Your favourite motto?
I dont like mottos, or slogans. If anything can be summed up in a few words without losing a part of its value then it wasnt really worthwhile to begin with.

26. How would you like to die?
Old, In my sleep, in a most unpainful death.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #23 on: August 28, 2005, 01:35:26 PM

1. Your favourite virtue
Respect

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Determination and honesty

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Determination and honesty

4. Your biggest flaw
Laziness

5. Your favourite occupation
musician and traveller

6. Your chief characteristic
Determination and optimism

7. Your idea of happiness
Doing what i love with people that i love

8. Your idea of misery
Doing what i don't love because of my biggest flaw-laziness

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Blue and white. Flower? I like palms but it's a tree...i like cactuses too

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
I don't want be somebody else.

11. Where would you like to live?
I like Croatia, my home, but I'd like to live somewhere in Asia. Or NYC. Or Bali.

12. Your favourite prose authors?
I like Candace Bushnell but she isn't my favorite.

13. Your favourite poets?
Dante

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
Painter-my dad. Composers-Chopin...

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Last Pope John Paul II. All people who are brave and think positive despite their hard life.

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
Mother Theresa and somebody who i know in real life. Name isn't important.

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Hm...don't know

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Hercule Poirot

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Food-pasta
Drink-coctails, Redbull-vodka...

20. Your favourite names?
Ana Maria, Paris, Achilles

21. Your pet aversion?
Snakes and spiders. And bugs. And cockroaches. I hate them.

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
Hiter...and so many of them

23. What is your present state of mind?
Having last days of my vacation

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
Depends for which person

25. Your favourite motto?
Word impossible doesn't exist in my dictionary.- Napoleon

26. How would you like to die?
I don't wanna die. Not yet.

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Reply #24 on: August 28, 2005, 07:24:43 PM

Last I heard, Hercule Poirot was a guy ...

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #25 on: August 31, 2005, 06:28:27 PM

Quote from: ahmedito on August 28, 2005, 07:24:43 PM

Last I heard, Hercule Poirot was a guy ...

aw sorry...haha

and i wrote Hiter instead of Hitler...

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Reply #26 on: August 31, 2005, 07:40:54 PM

1. Your favourite virtue The ability to love something and dedicate yourself to it.

2. Your favourite qualities in a man The qualities of a Renaissance Man. Intelligence, wit, a certain amount of culture without stuffiness, high ideals, lack of excessive frivolousness - a religious soul might term all this reverence

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman The qualities of a Renaissance Woman (minus the expected subservience).

4. Your biggest flaw Laziness, lack of foresight, disorganization

5. Your favourite occupation Author.

6. Your chief characteristic Indifference to reality.

7. Your idea of happiness Having become a self-willed person.

8. Your idea of misery Succumbing to ennui.

9. Your favourite colour and flower. Blue. Sword-lillies, at the moment.

10. If not yourself, who would you be? Artur Rubinstein.

11. Where would you like to live? Somewhere warm, but not humid so my piano stays in tune.

12. Your favourite prose authors? At the moment, in no order - Hesse, Rand, Nietzsche, Dostoievsky.

13. Your favourite poets? Goethe.

14. Your favourite painters and composers? I like the Italian masters. Also Goya. In music Beethoven first, then the Romantics (except Brahms, for some reason - much of his work I cannot stand) and also those with Romantic sentiment (including some Scarlatti, Rachmaninoff, some Scriabin)

15. Your favourite heroes in real life? The great musicians. Especially Beethoven. He lived my ideal: loving truth so much that he gave his entire life seeking it, and discovering some of the most profound things (Op 110, 127, etc.) Hesse is a hero too - and all the people who were oppressed for seeking and proclaiming the truth.

16. Your favourite heroines in real life? Same as above, though I realize that not many fit the description. Myra Hess, and Amy Beach. Rose Wilder Lane.

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction? I like the heroes of the authors listed above - except Dostoiyevsky. His characters really scare me.

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction? Ditto.

19. Your favourite food and drink? Freshly baked bread sounds appealing at the moment. Chinese tea.

20. Your favourite names? Anything Greek, Latin, Russian, Spanish, or inspiring.

21. Your pet aversion? Politics and political authority. Socialism.

22. What characters in history do you most dislike? All the despots, especially the ones who tell the people that their suffering and dying is for the people or for the country. I also dislike Martin Luther King. I certainly have nothing against racial equality, but he preached socialism and the anti-virtue of suffering for the sake of redemption, in which I cannot believe.

23. What is your present state of mind?

24. For what fault have you most toleration? I don't know. Some faults I don't have problems with. Laziness? An excess of frivolity? An excess of seriousness?

25. Your favourite motto? We must condemn publicly the very idea that some people have a right to repress others. - Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago I.

26. How would you like to die? I don't know.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #27 on: September 06, 2005, 10:42:47 PM

THE PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE

1. Your favourite virtue – honesty, trust

2. Your favourite qualities in a man – decency

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman – confidence

4. Your biggest flaw – impatience, with people anyway. Not with music.

5. Your favourite occupation – pianist!

6. Your chief characteristic – dedicated

7. Your idea of happiness – music

8. Your idea of misery – a world without music, passion or love

9. Your favourite colour and flower. – Blue or purple. Jasmine.

10. If not yourself, who would you be? – My cat.

11. Where would you like to live? – In Imola in Italy.

12. Your favourite prose authors? – Douglas Adams

13. Your favourite poets? – Breyten Breytenbach, Ingrid Jonke (both South African)

14. Your favourite painters and composers? – Picasso, Piet & Diek Grobler (SA brothers) Paul Klee, dont even get me started on favorite composers. To cut it short, there are just to many with all there individual differences to have a favourite.

15. Your favourite heroes in real life? – Cant honestly say I have any. There are people I respect and admire but I dont put anyone as high as a personal hero.

16. Your favourite heroines in real life? – Same as above

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction? – Garion out of The Belgariad- David Eddings

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction? – Polgara out of the same set of books

19. Your favourite food and drink? – My best friends dad's Pasta and Bavarian Cream; Cabernet Sauvignon on a classy evening, on a slightly more casual evening, tequila, or any concoction of a friend of mine.

20. Your favourite names? – Not again! I love European names. They just sound so... beautiful.

21. Your pet aversion? – Pigs. Small dogs. "stoepkakkertjies" (seeing as though there is absolutely NO ONE in the forum from South Africa, no ones gonna know what that means!

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22. What characters in history do you most dislike? – Hitler

23. What is your present state of mind? – Happy, at peace, tired, annoyed at the mosquito flying around my head, and generally very positive.

24. For what fault have you most toleration? – Mental retardation. It cant be helped, others like laziness, stupidity, depression, obsession, can be helped and are used mostly as excuses for not getting on with life and an excuse for failure. That I have no toleration for.

25. Your favourite motto? – Today is the tommorow you were worrying about yesterday.... was it worth it?
26. How would you like to die? – Doing something I really enjoy... in absolute ecstacy. But not now... give me another 75 healthy kicking years on this planetand I'll be more than happy. (*sighs* another 75 years with Chopin... amazing!)

I solemnly swear that this is the last PF questionnaire I will ever fill out

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #28 on: September 07, 2005, 07:08:12 AM

"stoepkakkertjies" (seeing as though there is absolutely NO ONE in the forum from South Africa, no ones gonna know what that means! Grin)

I know what it means, or rather what it should mean, since I am dutch. I though there was someone from S-Africa here, well that must have been you then.

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Re: The Proust questionnaire

Reply #29 on: September 07, 2005, 08:27:33 AM

Is anyone actually gonna read everyone's replies? o_O

1. Your favourite virtue
Respect

2. Your favourite qualities in a man
Respect and manners

3. Your favourite qualities in a woman
Intelligence and modesty

4. Your biggest flaw
Pride, temper

5. Your favourite occupation
Anything to do with medicine or science

6. Your chief characteristic
Passion

7. Your idea of happiness
Being at peace with everything OR being successful

8. Your idea of misery
Failure, conflict

9. Your favourite colour and flower.
Colour - black, flower - none

10. If not yourself, who would you be?
Maurizio Pollini

11. Where would you like to live?
Right where I live now - Sydney. Or New York. Or Paris. Or London.

12. Your favourite prose authors?
Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas

13. Your favourite poets?
John Milton

14. Your favourite painters and composers?
Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Brahms, Beethoven

15. Your favourite heroes in real life?
Archbishop Oscar Romero, Oscar Schindler, Emperor Constantine

16. Your favourite heroines in real life?
None

17. Your favourite heroes in fiction?
Prince Hamlet - Hamlet (Shakespeare), Jean Valjean - Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)

18. Your favourite heroines in fiction?
Fantine, Cosette - Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)

19. Your favourite food and drink?
Pizza and coffee

20. Your favourite names?
Vladimir, James, William

21. Your pet aversion?
I like all pets =)

22. What characters in history do you most dislike?
Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, President George W Bush, President Franklin Roosevelt, Emperor Nero, Achilles

23. What is your present state of mind?
Neutral

24. For what fault have you most toleration?
Errr I tolerate NO faults

25. Your favourite motto?
To be passionate is to live.

26. How would you like to die?
Plane crash

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