Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Questionairre

 

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?

 


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I started this blog in September, 2006. Mostly, it is where I can talk about things that interest me, which I otherwise don't get to do all that much, about some remarkable people who should not be forgotten, philosophy and theories (like Don Foster's on who wrote A Visit From St. Nicholas and my own on whether Santa is mostly derived from a Norse god) and analysis of issues that concern me. Often it is about books. I try to quote accurately and to say when I am paraphrasing (more and more). Sometimes I blow the first name of even very famous people, often entertainers. I'm much better at history, but once in a while I see I have written something I later learned was not true. Sometimes I fix them, sometimes not. My worst mistake was writing that Beethoven went blind, when he actually went deaf. Feel free to point out an error. I either leave in the mistake, or, if I clean it up, the comment pointing it out. From time to time I do clean up grammar in old posts as, over time I have become more conventional in my grammar, and I very often write these when I am falling asleep and just make dumb mistakes. It be nice to have an editor, but . . . .