Proust and Faust

Mirror Mirror on the Wall by Eize

What is it about these silly quizzes that fascinates us (by us I mean me, unless you count yourself fascinated too!)? Is it that it feeds our ego and lets us vent all the frivolous facts about ourselves that we want people to know and admire? Whatever psychological vice it feeds (hence the mention of Faust in the title of the post), I love seeing other people's answers. So I'll post my answers and hopefully someone decides to do it themselves (this means you Molly :D ).

The Proust Questionnaire:

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being lost in a bakery full of cheesecakes, I suppose.

2. What is your greatest fear? I'm not afraid of much.

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? My self-consciousness.

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Hypocrisy, over-sensitivity, superficiality, lack of reasoning or critical thinking.

5. Which living person do you most admire? My parents, because I can't just pick one.

6. What is your greatest extravagance? As in monetary? I don't spend much but if I do its on clothing or books.

7. What is your current state of mind? Nonchalant.

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? I don't believe that virtues can be overrated.

9. On what occasion do you lie? Little white lies, I suppose, if I have to keep someone's secret.

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? I'm not too fond of my face. =]

11. Which living person do you most despise? Oh, it's so hard for me to despise anyone. Disagree with? Yes. Despise? No.

12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Independence. Or confidence. Or manliness. :D

13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Genuineness.

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “I suppose...", "cool",

15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? God.

16. When and where were you happiest? I'm such an indecisive person I can never answer this type of question.

17. Which talent would you most like to have? I would love to have a natural gift for lindyhopping.

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I would probably make myself cooler. Or give myself green eyes. =)

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Learning the basic lindyhop step. If you can learn that, you are unstoppable.

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? My cat. She makes sleeping look like an art.

21. Where would you most like to live? A cottage near the beach in some like seaside village in Europe.

22. What is your most treasured possession? My guitar and my books.

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Being a pathetic self-pitying person who doesn't care for anyone else except one's self.

24. What is your favorite occupation? A chocolate maker, of course. :p

25. What is your most marked characteristic? Whenever I think about something, I exaggerate by rubbing my chin with my fingers like in the cartoons. Everyone knows me by that.

26. What do you most value in your friends? Self-sacrifice and generosity.

27. Who are your favorite writers? In no particular order, Victor Hugo, P.G. Wodehouse, A. C. Doyle, C. S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Dumas, Cervantes, Dostoevsky, ...and the list can go on forever.

28. Who is your hero of fiction? Agh, I can't decide...

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? …Napoleon of course. :]

30. Who are your heroes in real life? My parents.

31. What are your favorite names? Camille, Alice, Simone, Raphael, Sebastian

32. What is it that you most dislike? Dull pencils.

33. What is your greatest regret? I have none.

34. How would you like to die? Painlessly.

35. What is your motto? "You're alive. Do something."