Proust Questionnaire

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Because happiness is felt only in contrast with other emotions,
particularly negative ones, and also in its persistent form is
self-condemning, happiness can only be maximal in nature,
never "perfect".
2. What is your greatest fear?
My greatest fear is future. Xenophobia and pervasive
pessimism sire the most ghastly of malformations.
3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
I greatly identify with Archimedes whose last words before
being murdered where "Don't ruin my circles," in reference to a
project he was working on at the time. I often find myself
absorbed in projects to the point of having little concern for
much anything else so long as the project continues to intrigue
me.
4. Which living person do you most admire?
From what I can think of at the moment, I actually really admire
Bill and Melinda Gates for their revolutionary success in an
underappreciated field and in using their success to primarily to
help others who cannot help themselves.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I abhor my social incapacity and difficulties in establishing
trusting and long-lasting relationships.
6. What trait do you most deplore in others?
I often and remiss at the thoughtlessness with which people go
about things. A little philosophy, research, or consideration can
go a long way toward more effective and beneficial systems.
7. What is your greatest extravagance?
My most costly possession is my laptop.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
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Idealism probably does the most to cause individuals to
become dissatisfied and act against their best interest as their
belief in the improbable makes the inevitable seem unfair or at
least less than they are deserving.
9. What sound do you love?
I love the sound of a soft kind voice, especially with an
accompanying British, Ecuadorian, French, or otherwise elegant
accent.
10. What sound do you hate?
I absolutely despise the sounds of screeches and whines that
hurt the ears.
11. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
I do not know if there is anything I could say that I love, only
things I know I could not live without. If ever I am without my
hands and eyes both, I doubt I could find much value in my
continued existence.
12. Which words or phrases do you feel are overused?
While most words and phrases are used with careless candor,
the lack of discipline for the distinction between earnest
affirmation and sophical accuracy, by using "true" as a
interchangeable, mutt makes correctness completely
indeterminable and has destroyed its little remaining perceived
value in American culture, especially politics and relationships.
13. What talent would you most like to have?
I would greatly enjoy comedic skill as it is the core criterion for
a charismatic personality.
14. What would you consider your greatest achievement?
I have little by way of ambition and determination which would
cause me to "achieve" anything worth mentioning. I take some
amount of pride in the inordinate amounts of food I can
consume in a single sitting, on occasion, without getting sick or
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gaining a significant amount of weight. Once I consumed two
dozen doughnuts in single afternoon.
15. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing,
what do you think it would be?
I believe that if I were reincarnated it would be as whoever
loved me most to be able to see my faults, blessings, and
actions with the greatest insight so as to best utilize them for
the development of the soul.
16. What is your most treasured possession?
My most treasured possession is my mind or my laptop
depending on how pretentious I wish to sound.
17. Where would you like to live?
I would like to live somewhere cold with really old buildings.
18. What is your favourite occupation?
My favorite occupation is the occupation of my mind. Boredom
truly is the lowest circle of hell.
19. What is the quality you most like in a man?
I believe honor in masculinity is most dependent on integrity in
honesty, candor, commitment, and responsibility.
20. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
I believe honor in femininity is most dependent on endurance
in dignity, civility, poise, and amiability.
21. What do you most value in your friends?
Persistent curiosity is essential to friendship with an
intellectually minded individual, without it the friendship
becomes a burden on all of those involved.
22. Who are your favourite writers?
I greatly admire the work of Isaac Asimov for his incredible
insights into technology, theology, and philosophy, however
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the writing styles of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien possess a
dream-like quality, in their bedtime story rhetoric, that works
really well with medium and are very palatable.
23. Who is your favourite hero in fiction?
I am enamored with the relatability and believability of Bilbo
Baggins in The Hobbit.
24. How would you like to die?
When my time for passing has come, dressed in a tattered and
disintegrating robe, I would like to approach a young man in his
early teens whilst he sits in wait. I would sit next to him,
quietly, and ignore him completely, for my words must not
seem as though an introduction or a beginning to a
conversation of any kind. After this time passes, I would to turn
to him, a wide-eyed and wicked smile upon my face, and pique
is interest with the simple phrase: "hey kid, watch this." And
then through some chemistry of sorts, with a conflagrant and
an unhealthy amount of morphine, spontaneously combust. I
would cackled maniacally as what would seem an eldritch fire
consumes me.
25. What is your favourite word?
My favorite word is ephemeral because all of the most beautiful
things, the things which makes life truly worth living, are
passing moments of perceived perfection. Things our mind
never forgets but refuses to recall accurately because the
worth of the moment is vital to our very survival and would
otherwise be tarnished with time.
26. What is a word you dislike?
I dont like the word because it is a vile phrase that turns even
the most respectable men into complete scoundrels.
27. What is your favourite movie?
My favorite movie is probably Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
because of its flowing format and sound narrative.
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28. What is your favourite book?
My favorite book would be either H.P. Lovecraft the Complete
Fiction, particularly the Call of Cthulhu or "The Wedding" by
Nicholas Sparks. Both are incredibly atmospheric and
effectively deliver a simple premise.
29. What do you believe is the greatest contribution in our
society today?
I am of sound conviction that the invention of cheap soap and
water treatment has saved more lives than any other in human
history and has greatly contributed to the incredibly socially
sanity culture we have today.
30. What is your motto or mantra?
My mantra is, although I am not its author; "TRUE! --nervous
--very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will
you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses
--not destroyed --not dulled them."