I’m getting back to the war on fascism soon, but busy with work. Probably this weekend. In the meantime, this should take just a few minutes. If you ever watched The Actor’s Studio, starring James Lipton, a set of questions modeled after The Proust Questioner (the author Marcel Proust - although Lipton gives someone later on credit), was asked to each guest at the end. I am asking, as if the interviewer, and answering, as guest, both Proust’s questions (there were two sets, so I combined) and the set from the tv show. As always, sorry about the fonts, format and coloring. I have no control of it:
Proust
Your favorite virtue. Honesty.
Your favorite qualities Calmness.
in a man.
Your favorite qualities Sex
appeal.
In a women.
Your chief Interested
in
characteristic. the universe.
What you appreciate Kindness
most in your friends?
Your main fault. Too many interests
Your favorite Reading.
occupation.
Your idea of Happiness
Happiness. of family and friends.
Your idea of Being
afraid.
misery.
If not yourself, who A
columnist with an
would you want to audience.
be?
Where would you Waterfront
with mountains
like to live? behind
me. Bar Harbor,
Corsica, New Zealand.
Your favorite color. Turquoise.
Your favorite flower. Rose.
Your favorite bird. Swans.
Your favorite prose Tolkien,
Homer, Matthiessen
authors. Will Durant, Le Carré, John Myers
Myers
(that is the actual name)
Alan Furst, Chandler,
Runyon,
Knut Hamsun,
Narayan, Dumas,
Shakespeare.
Your favorite poets. Kipling,
Frost, Blake.
Your favorite heroes Natty
Bumppo, Archie Goodwin,
in fiction. D’Artagnan,
Sam Gamgee
Your favorite heroines Éowyn,
Mary Poppins.
in fiction.
Your favorite Bach,
Beethoven, Wagner,
Composers. Tchaikovsky,
Prima, McCartney,
Emerson.
Your favorite Michelangelo,
El Greco,
artists. Brueghel
(the Elder), Caravaggio.
Lipton
What is your Mellifluous.
favorite word?
What is your least Cacophony.
favorite word?
What turns you on? Women.
What turns you off? Braggarts,
greed.
What sound or Rain.
noise do you love?
What sound or noise GPS
lady.
do you hate?
What is your favorite Fuck.
curse word?
What profession Author.
other than your own
would you like to
attempt?
What profession Lawyer.
would you not like
to do?
If heaven exists, You
were wrong,
what would you but
I won’t hold it
like to hear God against
you.
say when you
arrive at the pearly
gates?
