Vanity Fair, the magazine, upholds a tradition on its last printed page: the Proust questionnaire. The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one's personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by the French writer Marcel Proust.
Your favorite virtue: Kindness
Your favorite qualities in a man/woman: Smiles, softness, forgivingness, insight
Your chief characteristic: optimistic blue eyes
What do you appreciate the most in Your friends: tolerence, patience
Your main fault: too quick to judge, quick tongue
Your favourite occupation: helping others
Your idea of happiness: tennis @ the Surf & racquet club, 8 am
Your idea of misery: wet shoes, uninvited cold weather, bad manners
If not yourself, who would you be? Gandhi
Where would you like to live? In the sun
Your favourite color and flower? Blue, hyacinth
Your favorite prose authors: Flaubert, Theroux
Your favorite poets: Catullus, Baudelaire
Your favorite heros in fiction: Julien Sorel, Asterix le Gaulois
Your favorite heroines in fiction: Helen of Troy, Aphrodite
Your favorite painters and composers: Francis Bacon, Satie
Your heroes in real life: Wavy Gravy, FF Coppola, Dylan
Your favorite heroines in real life: my female companions
What characters in history do you most dislike: Hitler
Your heroines in world history: Joan of Arc
Your favorite food and drink: Truffles, Bordeaux
Your favorite names: Cassandra, Alphonse, Igor
What I hate the most: bad judgement, greed
What military event do you admire the most: D-Day Landing, Omaha Beach, 6/6/1944
The reform I most admire: recycling, the green movement
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with: play the piano
How I wish to die: in bed, calmly
What is Your present state of mind: inspired, thrilled, a little scared
Faults for which you have the most indulgence: people's tardiness
Your favorite motto: " I'm not always right, but I've never been wrong"
Most coveted posession: good health
Most overrated: affluence
Favorite historical person: JFK
Your favorite virtue: Kindness
Your favorite qualities in a man/woman: Smiles, softness, forgivingness, insight
Your chief characteristic: optimistic blue eyes
What do you appreciate the most in Your friends: tolerence, patience
Your main fault: too quick to judge, quick tongue
Your favourite occupation: helping others
Your idea of happiness: tennis @ the Surf & racquet club, 8 am
Your idea of misery: wet shoes, uninvited cold weather, bad manners
If not yourself, who would you be? Gandhi
Where would you like to live? In the sun
Your favourite color and flower? Blue, hyacinth
Your favorite prose authors: Flaubert, Theroux
Your favorite poets: Catullus, Baudelaire
Your favorite heros in fiction: Julien Sorel, Asterix le Gaulois
Your favorite heroines in fiction: Helen of Troy, Aphrodite
Your favorite painters and composers: Francis Bacon, Satie
Your heroes in real life: Wavy Gravy, FF Coppola, Dylan
Your favorite heroines in real life: my female companions
What characters in history do you most dislike: Hitler
Your heroines in world history: Joan of Arc
Your favorite food and drink: Truffles, Bordeaux
Your favorite names: Cassandra, Alphonse, Igor
What I hate the most: bad judgement, greed
What military event do you admire the most: D-Day Landing, Omaha Beach, 6/6/1944
The reform I most admire: recycling, the green movement
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with: play the piano
How I wish to die: in bed, calmly
What is Your present state of mind: inspired, thrilled, a little scared
Faults for which you have the most indulgence: people's tardiness
Your favorite motto: " I'm not always right, but I've never been wrong"
Most coveted posession: good health
Most overrated: affluence
Favorite historical person: JFK
1 comment:
Julian Sorel?? I gotta read that book again. I missed something.
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