Proust at 15, Me at 34...
Saturday, February 18, 2006Chloe posted half of the Proust questionnaire today. Here is mine...
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Anything happening to my children.
Where would you like to live?
On my own island somewhere warm.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being with my family every day and not having to work and having no worries and being able to travel as we like…I can go on…
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Frustration, and quick-temper
Who are your favourite heroes/heroines of fiction?
Jo March: Little Women, Sherlocke Holmes
Who are your favourite characters in history?
Galileo, Socrates, Ptolemy, Columbus, Lawrence of Arabia
Who are your favourite heroines in real life?
Rachel Carson, Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
Your favourite painter?
Rosetti, Hunt, Waterhouse among other pre-Raphaelites
Your favourite musician?
Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?
Sincerity, honesty, intelligence and humour
The quality you most admire in a woman?
The same as in a man
Your favourite virtue?
Compassion
Your favourite occupation?
doing anything at all that I love to do (writing, reading, painting, scrapbooking, decorating) without having to worry about getting paid for it
Who would you have liked to be?
I can honestly say that there is no one I would rather be…..
10:03 PM
those answers were deep.