[Answer the Proust Questionnaire]
[Answers by name or age]
[Random answer]
[Image gallery]
On Mon, 09 Jan 12 00:53:48 UTC Masha Shannon (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be rightfully filled with guilt
- Where would you like to live?
- In a home
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To live passionately and without regret, to make beauty and reveal truth, to cultivate deep friendships, to know real love
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- To hibernate and withdraw from the world
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Faust, and others who strive
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Catherine the Great, Elizabeth, Bakunin, Bulgakov, Hemingway, Marie Antoinette, and Josephine Baker
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Unafraid women
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Unafraid women rarely make the pages of fine fiction. But some exist who conquer their fears through strife or revelation, or those who are afraid but endure just the same.
- Your favorite painter?
- Kandinsky
- Your favorite musician?
- Bowie, which is entirely appropriate, considering today is his 65th birthday
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence, embrace of joie de vivre, courage
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence, courage, embrace of joie de vivre
- Your favorite virtue?
- Compassion
- Your favorite occupation?
- Daydreaming, fighting, loving
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Proust, obviously. In all truth, though, I would have liked to try out Catherine the Great's near scandalous life.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Wanderlust
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Honesty, laughter
- What is your principle defect?
- Difficulty enjoying small pleasures
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have lived in a state of melancholy for things that might have been
- What would you like to be?
- An explorer of the world
- What is your favorite color?
- Red, the color of passion, life, and death
- What is your favorite flower?
- Snapdragon
- What is your favorite bird?
- I have a special place in my heart for the small but tough chickadee
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, Sedaris, Jonathan Safran Foer
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Pushkin, Akhmatova
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- I am not sure they exist anymore
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Catherine the Great, Cleopatra (as Proust answered and thus inspired me to think of her as a heroine)
- What are your favorite names?
- Names of my favorite people
- What is it you most dislike?
- Underdressing, fear and regret
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Clearly Hitler and Stalin
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Russian self-sufficiency during the Siege of Leningrad
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Will power
- How would you like to die?
- In peace, and with a contented soul
- What is your present state of mind?
- Relaxed
- What is your motto?
- No gods, no managers, no mottos!
Clicking on the left button will increase the likelihood of Masha Shannon's answers being displayed as featured answer.