The Proust Questionnaire ... A Newbie's initiation

[phil]

You know what ...

Along with some essential infos. like mensurations and net worth ...
all newbies should be required to fill the "Proust Questionnaire" ...

My mother always told me not to talk with people
I've not been formaly introduced to ...

- Your most marked characteristic?

- The quality you most like in a man?

- The quality you most like in a woman?

- What do you most value in your friends?

- What is your principle defect?

- What is your favorite occupation?

- What is your dream of happiness?

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

- What would you like to be?

- In what country would you like to live?

- What is your favorite color?

- What is your favorite flower?

- What is your favorite bird?

- Who are your favorite prose writers?

- Who are your favorite poets?

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

- Who are your favorite composers?

- Who are your favorite painters?

- Who are your heroes in real life?

- What is it you most dislike?

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?

- How would you like to die?

- What is your present state of mind?

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

- What is your motto?

[phil]

- Your most marked characteristic?
Pigheadedness ...

- The quality you most like in a man?
Fatherly ...

- The quality you most like in a woman?
Motherly ...

- What do you most value in your friends?
Longevity ...

- What is your principle defect?
Procrastination ... Elitism ...

- What is your favorite occupation?
Gardening ...

- What is your dream of happiness?
A secluded house with a few friends ...

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Homeless/pennyless in New York City

- What would you like to be?
Independant ...

- In what country would you like to live?
Morocco - South of France - Southern Spain - Greek Islands ...

- What is your favorite color?
Blue/Gray ...

- What is your favorite flower?
Red Sunflower ...

- What is your favorite bird?
Hummingbird ...

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Boris Vian - Albert Camus - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

- Who are your favorite poets?
Émile Nelligan - Beaudelaire - Verlaine ...

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Zeus - Bacchus ...

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Aphrodite ...

- Who are your favorite composers?
Beethoven - Miles Davis - Frank Zappa ...

- Who are your favorite painters?
Chagall - Monet - Picasso ...

- Who are your heroes in real life?
Gandhi - Peter the Great ...

- What is it you most dislike?
Ignorance - Dogmas - noises ...

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Good health ...

- How would you like to die?
On my own accord - Quickly and painlessly ...

- What is your present state of mind?
BORED !!

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
"Sins" of the flesh ...

- What is your motto?

Life is a bitch and then you die ...
Better make the most of it now !!

Do no harm ...

[Paul]

- Your most marked characteristic?
personality:being silly/goofy and a smart ass
physical -- fat/round/chubby face, and recently, lots of hair on my head

- The quality you most like in a man?
being modest (too many macho types out there)

- The quality you most like in a woman?
being nurturing


- What do you most value in your friends?
loyalty

- What is your principle defect?
I'm lazy

- What is your favorite occupation?
don't really like working, but when I do, something creative

- What is your dream of happiness?
good friends and lots of money

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
lost at sea with no boat

- What would you like to be?
world dictator

- In what country would you like to live?
Spain

- What is your favorite color?
Green

- What is your favorite flower?
Lilacs

- What is your favorite bird?
humming bird

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
don't know

- Who are your favorite poets?
Edgar Allen Poe

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Jack Bauer of 24 / Obi-Wan Kenobi

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
Dolly for all the fun Kinks talk; also I'll give props to Ken, he's the one who guided me over this way (so if you hate me, blame him)

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Wonder Woman

- Who are your favorite composers?
Does Ray Davies count? If not, Bach

- Who are your favorite painters?
Van Gogh, Rembramdt

- Who are your heroes in real life?
Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Jimmy Carter, Ray Davies, John Fogerty, Jimi Hendrix, John, Paul, George, and Ringo, Jeff Tweedy, Joe Strummer, Mom/Dad

- What is it you most dislike?
Tough one....I dislike a lot of things...howling wind on a cold day, that really pisses me off; George W. Bush and his administration, and godamned motherfucking terrorist, and extremist/fundamentalist religious types

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
a sixth sense

- How would you like to die?
peacfully in my sleep when I'm very old (93+)

- What is your present state of mind?
curious, bored and content all at the same time

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
smoking lots of grass

- What is your motto?
never really thought of one....Live life, try new things, and learn something along the way

[poseidon]

I Yam What I Yam
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- Your most marked characteristic?
Physical: A birthmark in the shape of an eclipsed full moon on my right lower butt cheek. Personal: My wry, twisted sense of humor.

- The quality you most like in a man?
His endowment

- The quality you most like in a woman?
Her sensitivity.

- What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty

- What is your principle defect?
My substance abuse problems.

- What is your favorite occupation? Other people.

- What is your dream of happiness? To be free from the bonds that restrain me.

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? For there to be no God.

- What would you like to be? Happy Joyous and Free.

- In what country would you like to live? Ireland

- What is your favorite color? Sky Blue

- What is your favorite flower? The Rose

- What is your favorite bird? The scarlett Mckaw...
ya know the fruit loops commercial... "follow yer nose...it always knows!"

- Who are your favorite prose writers? Eh?

- Who are your favorite poets? None come to mind.

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Paul "Muadib" Atriedes (Dune), Gandalf, Thomas Covenant, Harry Potter.

- Who is your favorite poster? Slarknaked A.K.A. Matheus

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? The Bionic Woman

- Who are your favorite composers? Eh?

- Who are your favorite painters? Matisse, Da Vinci

- Who are your heroes in real life? The armed service personel fighting the war.

- What is it you most dislike? Illusion

- What natural gift would you most like to possess? Clarity

- How would you like to die? Surrounded by loved ones.

- What is your present state of mind? Delusional

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Smoking.

- What is your motto? "2 B Or Not 2 B."

[Thorngrub]

- Your most marked characteristic?
Physical: eyes + cleft lip scar / Characterwise: honesty

- The quality you most like in a man?
It's a tie between honesty & courage

- The quality you most like in a woman?
Self Confidence

- What do you most value in your friends?
Trust

- What is your principle defect?
Talk Too Much + Raising Voice (i.e, exciteable)

- What is your favorite occupation?
Tie: Reading & Sex

- What is your dream of happiness?
It's no dream: I was born happy

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
The self-effacing of the human race

- What would you like to be?
Yes. I would like to be.
[*sigh*, ok ok: An Author]

- In what country would you like to live?
I'm happy here in the US. If there's something wrong -- I'd like to try & help fix it. Running away is not for me.

- What is your favorite color?
Any cross between Green and Blue: i.e, indigo / cobalt / viridian / ultraviolet / Azurite-malachite / etc . . .

- What is your favorite flower?
The Sun-Flower

- What is your favorite bird?
The Great Horned Owl

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Italo Calvino; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; A.A. Attanasio; John Shirley; Ray Bradbury; Patrick Suskind...

- Who are your favorite poets?
Franz Wright; W.S. Merwin; Hart Crane; Ted Hughes; May Swenson; William Butler Yeats; William Blake ...

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Tie between: Frodo & Gollum

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
Pissin

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Momo

- Who are your favorite composers?

Tchaikovsky; Beethoven; Mozart; Eno...

- Who are your favorite painters?
Hieronymous Bosch; Goya; Maxfield Parrish; Rene Magritte; Max Ernst; Tim Lawton; to name but a few...

- Who are your heroes in real life?
Fire Fighters & Moms and Dads...

- What is it you most dislike?
Hopelessness

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Focus.

- How would you like to die?
In control of my demise, rather than the other way 'round...
*NOT "suicide", [which I am vehemently against insofar as it concerns me personally], but rather, to go when I'm good & ready to (IF such a time should ever arrive;)

- What is your present state of mind?
Clear and functional. Filled with hope for myself and mankind. Yearning.

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Honesty (to a fault: can be not-so-good, sometimes); Excessive monopolization of conversations; excess verbosity

- What is your motto?
For now it's going to be Act Locally, Think Globally

[Thorngrub]

Hey Phil . . . you didn't answer the "Who is your favorite poster" question. . . *tsk tsk*

[chrisfan]

Your most marked characteristic?
Outspokedness

- The quality you most like in a man?
Confidence

- The quality you most like in a woman?
Compassion

- What do you most value in your friends?
Dependability

- What is your principle defect?
holding on to grudges

- What is your favorite occupation?
Playing with my nephew

- What is your dream of happiness?
Being surrounded by the people I love the most

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
the absence of hope

- What would you like to be?
In charge


- In what country would you like to live?
I like it where I am. England would be nice too.

- What is your favorite color?
red

- What is your favorite flower?
Cosmos - because of The Color Purple

- What is your favorite bird?
Pelican

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Alice Walker, Harper Lee

- Who are your favorite poets?
Mattie Stepanek

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Atticus Finch

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
Ampster and Kool

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Wonder Woman

- Who are your favorite composers?
Handel, Greg Joseph

- Who are your favorite painters?
Monet

- Who are your heroes in real life?
Jesus, Mattie Stepanek, a boy I taught in Sunday School named Brian who had to have half his brain removed.

- What is it you most dislike?
selfishness

- What natural gift would you most like to possess? I'll get back to you when I think of it.

- How would you like to die?
Old

- What is your present state of mind?
content

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
I'll get back to you here too.

- What is your motto?

Don't forget to play after every storm.

[JesusLooksLikeMe]

- Your most marked characteristic?
RLS and PLMD

- The quality you most like in a man?
A smaller penis than me. Admittedly that narrows the field (but see my favourite poster)

- The quality you most like in a woman?
That indefinable je ne sais quoi

- What is your principle defect?
Sloth

- What is your favorite occupation?
Journalist

- What is your dream of happiness?
Phil, you're such a fucking hippy.

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Being squashed to death by a falling boulder whilst buggering a chicken, and having your death scene photographed and put in the Fortean Times for all to see.

- What would you like to be?
A few pounds lighter round the midriff. A rock star. A wealthy dilletante.

- In what country would you like to live?
Canada

- What is your favorite color?
Black

- What is your favorite flower?
Gladiola, because it reminds me of first seeing the Smiths on Top of the Pops and them hanging out of Mozzer's back pocket

- What is your favorite bird?
African Grey parrot. My parents have a genius one. He's a right bastard.

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Fowles, Austen, Banks... too many to mention

- Who are your favorite poets?
Keith Douglas (English WWII poet), most of the romantics (except Coleridge), Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Mr Darcy

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
I'm DQ'ing dolly for obvious reasons. Which leaves riley & luke. Loads of other very cool people (both on here and from that blasted Sedaka bunch), but these two poofs go back the longest.

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Sidney Bristow. Elizabeth Bennett.

- Who are your favorite composers?
Efrim from GYBE

- Who are your favorite painters?
Dali, Matisse

- Who are your heroes in real life?
I don't have any right now. Ask me in '97 and I'd have said Tony Blair. Oh well.

- What is it you most dislike?
British tabloid press

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Great singing voice

- How would you like to die?
Painlessly

- What is your present state of mind?
Genius

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Scobbing down cheesecake like a reet fat bastard

[luke]

- Your most marked characteristic?
I don’t know.

- The quality you most like in a man?
The power in his hands, his quest for glory

- The quality you most like in a woman?
Titties. Or, these days, not being attractive enough for my wife to catch me staring.

- What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty

- What is your principle defect?
My wandering mind

- What is your favorite occupation?
Writing

- What is your dream of happiness?
Being rich and not working

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Some ghastly scenario involving torture and rape of myself and loved ones.

- What would you like to be?
A writer.

- In what country would you like to live?
Australia.

- What is your favorite color?
Right now, probably red, but usually blue or green.

- What is your favorite flower?
I ain’t got no favorite flower.

- What is your favorite bird?
To eat, probably chicken.

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Fitzgerald, Bret Easton Ellis, Clive Barker

- Who are your favorite poets?
Charles Bukowski, Poe

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Spider-Man, Rambo

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
Ah...Jesus, Riley, Rocky

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Ripley

- Who are your favorite composers?
Dunno.

- Who are your favorite painters?
Certainly don’t have any.

- Who are your heroes in real life?
Chris Jericho

- What is it you most dislike?
Feces. I hate that stuff.

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ability to eat anything I wanted, as much and often as I wanted, but it would all be the equivalent of really healthy food. Also it'd be nice to be one of those people who can run literally for days on end without injury

- How would you like to die?
Asleep.

- What is your present state of mind?
Bored.

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
My wandering mind.

- What is your motto?
You gotta pay your dues before you can pay the rent.

No, that's not really my motto, I don't have one.

[dolly]

- Your most marked characteristic?
I blush too much, and I have nice shiny hair.

- The quality you most like in a man?
The ability to put me in fits of giggles, and dark brooding 'come to bed' eyes.

- The quality you most like in a woman?
A sense of sisterhood - I look for this in all of my female friends - can't abide senseless competitiveness.

- What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty. Humour. Willingness to get into all manner of scrapes.

- What is your principle defect?
Over-sensitivity. Leaving things until the last minute.

- What is your favorite occupation?
Anything I'm not doing at the time. Food critic would be the ultimate.

- What is your dream of happiness?
I'm pretty happy. But a stress-free existance appeals right now.

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Being butt-ugly. Yeah, I'm shallow.

- What would you like to be?
I wish I could fly, right up to the sky. But I can't... Metaphorically, I so identify with that fat green feathered fucker (like anyone here knows who Orvil is...)

- In what country would you like to live?
Canada. Or Britain if it wasn't such a bloody rip-off.

- What is your favorite color?
Black & white

- What is your favorite flower?
Er.... don't know. Never get bought any

- What is your favorite bird?
Orvil. He'd beat the shit out of Rod Hull's Emu (again, Brit thing...)

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
Er.... I have liked Jonothan Coe and John O'Farrel recently. Albert Camus (or any of those existentialist dudes)... Otherwise, I'm fickle.

- Who are your favorite poets?
TS Eliot. And Snoop Dogg.

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Candide. Reminds me of Tok for some reason.

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
*sticks tongue out at JLLM* Paul Cooke and Layla.
Also have love for Riley, Tok, the Holz, the Doc, Shinsy, Trace - shit, everyone. But yeah, Layla and PCooke.

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Stephanie Plum the female bounty hunter!

- Who are your favorite composers?
Mozart for his requiem. Powerful shit.

- Who are your favorite painters?
Meh.

- Who are your heroes in real life?
Ray Davies, Joe Strummer, Richard Thompson, and I'd def. want Jack Bauer on my team in case of a national emergency situation.

- What is it you most dislike?
Marking shit coursework.

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Photographic memory.

- How would you like to die?
I'd rather not at all to be honest.

- What is your present state of mind?
Stressed. Overworked. Cabbaged.

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
I eat way more chocolate than any girl should. I also am too handy with a store card.

- What is your motto?
I'm blank on this too.

[dolly]

Jesus has just pointed out to me Jack Bauer is not real. Gutted.

[rockkid]

Your most marked characteristic? …….. Eye lashes & cheek bones. Tenacity.

- The quality you most like in a man?.... Ambition.

- The quality you most like in a woman? ……… The same as above.

- What do you most value in your friends?..... Loyalty.

- What is your principle defect? ……….. Perhaps being to demanding of others efforts.

- What is your favorite occupation? …………. (from your response Phil I take it you mean passtime)………. Yard work, reading, tanning.

- What is your dream of happiness?............. Retirement right now & a personal trainer to go with that. Must keep in shape.

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? …………….. The loss of a child.

- What would you like to be? ……….. Damn rich.

- In what country would you like to live?........... Right here, just in a different city.

- What is your favorite color? …………… Tan.

- What is your favorite flower? …………. Red or yellow carnations.

- What is your favorite bird? ………… Magpies (quite a smart bird actually).

- Who are your favorite prose writers? ………… No one really stands out right now.

- Who are your favorite poets?............... Thomas Lux.

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction? ………. Rarely read fiction so it’s no surprise I’m going to say none.

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ? ………….. Thorn & the scarce smokie. Frag’s not ½ bad either. strat & the doc of course.

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?............ See above ref: hero.

- Who are your favorite composers?................. Wagner.

- Who are your favorite painters? ………. Pretty much the entire Group of Seven ever since I was about ten & Van Gough.

- Who are your heroes in real life? …………… I don’t believe in heroes per say. Now unsung heroes that’s what gets my respect.( You know those who do what needs to be done every day w/out requiring rewards or salutations).

- What is it you most dislike? ………. Know it alls/toppers & lazy people in general.

- What natural gift would you most like to possess? ……….. Who knows?

- How would you like to die? ………… While asleep.

- What is your present state of mind?............... Bored & funked out.

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent? ………….. My use of excessive sarcasm.

-Motto............... A saying as opposed to motto……….. The world is full of thud fucks & you are but one.

[Rit]

- Your most marked characteristic?
stubborness.

- The quality you most like in a man?
ego-less friendship.

- The quality you most like in a woman?
self-confidence and speaks her own mind always.

- What do you most value in your friends?
good humour.

- What is your principle defect?
procrastination. like Dolly.

- What is your favorite occupation?
competition

- What is your dream of happiness?
to be challenged and pushed to limits on a daily basis.

- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
someone who loses their way in life.

- What would you like to be?
self-contained.

- In what country would you like to live?
Canada.

- What is your favorite color?
i don't have one. one's as good as another.

- What is your favorite flower?
i haven't thought about it.

- What is your favorite bird?
ravens? owls?

- Who are your favorite prose writers?
i'm a poor prose reader. my bookshelf is stacked with non-fiction. So in the non-fiction category, i'd say Harold Bloom, John Ralston Saul, Northrop Frye, Robert Kagan.

- Who are your favorite poets?
William Blake, Vergil, Ovid.

- Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Seymour Glass, from J.D. Salinger's Raise High The Roofbeam, Carpenters

- Who is your favorite poster(beside Phil) ?
my absolute fave for longevity reasons is Res... (otherwise known as ResevoirBitch). she was the first poster on the RS.com that i connected to in a strong way. she supported me through thick and thin roughly 2 years ago. Besides Res, there are numerous posters as of late that i really enjoy reading posts by.

- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Franny Glass, from J.D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey

- Who are your favorite composers?
Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz, Stravinsky.

- Who are your favorite painters?
i took a fine arts intro class once, so i can answer this to some degree. but my interests have never really been with zee fine arts. anyhow: Giotto, Goya, Cézanne, and Van Gogh.

- Who are your heroes in real life?
a certain friend of mine, who's been through a lot, Iggy Pop, Hank Williams Sr, Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan, canadian ex-army general Romeo Dallaire.

- What is it you most dislike?
putting up with bullshit from people i don't respect. Bon Jovi. most television programs.

- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
the so-called proverbial 'steel trap mind'

- How would you like to die?
peacefully. definitely not hooked up to machines and tubes.

- What is your present state of mind?
pensive. for no apparent reason.

- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
a certain perceived arrogance?

- What is your motto?
Be all you can be. (c)

[rockkid]

you can't copy right an army motto

[Rit]

i just did!