This is a version of a famous questionnaire onced ask of Marcel Proust. If you have a blog and feel like taking it, leave me a link and I'll check it out.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A clear conscience.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Cowardice in myself.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Indecisiveness
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Dishonor
5. Which living person do you most admire?
My friend Susan
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
Lush cosmetics
7. What is your current state of mind?
Calm
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Chastity
9. On what occasion do you lie?
Always and never
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
That I care about it
11. Which living person do you most despise?
No one
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Honor
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Sisterhood
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Preposterous, abomination, flophouse, hmmph
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
husband, dog, children
16. When and where were you happiest?
A few weeks ago, here at home
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
To play jazz piano
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Fewer scars
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Making it to 19
Making it to 19
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A tree in one of Paris's public gardens
21. Where would you most like to live?
Paris or by a beautiful mountain lake
22. What is your most treasured possession?
I have none
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being helpless
24. What is your favorite occupation?
Free-range thinking
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
Humor
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty
27. Who are your favorite writers?
A lot of the great English poets, some Anne Tyler, Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, and on and on and on
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
All heros are fictional, really
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Don't know yet
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
I don't believe in heroes, just heroic actions
31. What are your favorite names?
Theodora, Felix
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Sentimentality without honor
33. What is your greatest regret?
That I didn't trust my instincts when I knew something was terribly wrong, and that I didn't fight for them.
34. How would you like to die?
Bravely
35. What is your motto?
You're not the boss of me.
