My answers to the Proust questionnaire
I found this neat questionnaire through Zachary Kai's page and I wanted to try it out. It was quite fun!
The Questions
Your Favorite Virtue
Patience
Your Favorite Qualities In A Man
Doesn't care much for being a man
Your Favorite Qualities In A Woman
Doesn't care much for being a woman
Your Favorite Occupation
I always love to chat about art, stories, communication, and religion.
Your Chief Characteristic
I would like to think it's my creativity, but I don't really know.
Your Idea Of Happiness
Being a valued part of a loving community
Your Idea Of Misery
Hurting or losing someone you love
Your Favorite Color And Flower
Favorite color is any shade of green, but especially the earthy and vivid ones. I'm not sure of my favorite flower, but the first one that came to mind was a water lily.
If Not Yourself, Who Would You Be?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think it would be awesome to be a shapeshifter. More realistically, though, I sometimes think that in another life I'd like to be (or I was) a monk.
Where Would You Like To Live?
In an ideal world, I would have a small, colorful house with a garden. It would be surrounded by trees but not too far from a walkable city or town.
Your Favorite Prose Authors
I haven't been much of a reader for most of my life, so all the authors I like are ones I read recently. Of those, I think my favorites so far have been Gennarose Nethercott and Peter S. Beagle.
Your Favorite Poets
I never really memorized poets' names except the household names, and I think that of those names the only one I remember liking was Emily Dickinson. There's one exception to that, though, and it's that there's a part from a Rita Dove poem that has stuck with me for years:
There are ways
to make of the momenta topiary
so the pleasure's inwalking through.
Your Favorite Painters And Composers
Painters: Hieronymus Bosch, Gustav Klimt, Wassily Kandinsky. Composers (I don't know much about classical music): Dave Malloy, David Byrne.
Your Favorite Heroes In Real Life
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
Your Favorite Heroines In Real Life
Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore
Your Favorite Heroes In Fiction
For both these and the heroines, some of my choices are very debatably heroic.
Pierre Bezukhov, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Abed Nadir, The Beast/Adam (Beauty and the Beast), Herbert West
Your Favorite Heroines In Fiction
Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Susan (Three Houses), Gloria/The Bride (Bride of Reanimator), Tiffany Valentine
Your Favorite Food And Drink
First, paneer tikka masala with basmati rice and good naan. Second, a grilled caprese sandwich, especially if it's on really nice bread (Faves include sourdough and focaccia). Honestly, any combination of tomatoes, veggies, herbs, cheese, and carbs... top tier food.
I also love a mixed drink, alcoholic or not, especially with herbal and/or floral flavors, ginger, or rum. And 80% of the time I think it's better when it's carbonated.
Your Favorite Names
I'm horrible at coming up with names. First ones that come to mind that I like are Basil and Frances.
Your Pet Aversion
I never mention this because it's a weird thing to feel strongly about, but I really hate the sound of liquid being poured into a glass, especially if there's ice. Those weird commercials at the movies with extreme closeups of coke being poured into a glass are the bane of my existence.
What Characters In History Do You Most Dislike?
There are the usual suspects, but Immanuel Kant and Plato are my personal enemies.
What Is Your Present State Of Mind?
I often feel like I became human for the first time just this morning. Part of me thinks that's normal for your mid to late 20's and part of me thinks that's not at all how I should feel.
For What Fault Have You Most Toleration?
People being a bit slow, whether that's in replying to a text or coming to a conclusion.
Your Favorite Motto
What's a motto?
(And then you say, "I dunno, what's a motto with you!")