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Proust Questionnaire Email
Swap Coordinator:MonicaVereana (contact)
Swap categories: Letters & Writing  Newbie  Email 
Number of people in swap:24
Location:International
Type:Type 1: Electronic
Last day to signup/drop:July 31, 2009
Date items must be sent by:August 7, 2009
Number of swap partners:5
Description:

Vanity Fair prints celebrity responses to these questions every month; they were made famous by the answers provided by Marcel Proust when he was 13 & 20, hence the name.

There will be 5 partners; you will email your responses to the questionnaire to these partners. This swap is open to everyone, including newbies and will not have a minimum rating; this very easy swap will give you a chance to increase a bad rating.

These are the questions:

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

2. What is your greatest fear?

3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?

5. Which living person do you most admire?

6. What is your greatest extravagance?

7. What is your current state of mind?

8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?

9. On what occasion do you lie?

10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?

11. Which living person do you most despise?

12. What is the quality you most like in a man?

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

14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

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

16. When and where were you happiest?

17. Which talent would you most like to have?

18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

21. Where would you most like to live?

22. What is your most treasured possession?

23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

24. What is your favorite occupation?

25. What is your most marked characteristic?

26. What do you most value in your friends?

27. Who are your favorite writers?

28. Who is your hero of fiction?

29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

30. Who are your heroes in real life?

31. What are your favorite names?

32. What is it that you most dislike?

33. What is your greatest regret?

34. How would you like to die?

35. What is your motto?

Discussion

Platter 07/23/2009 #

These are awesome questions and is it a tad sad that when I first read the name marcel proust I didnt think 'scholar' but rather "oh man, I remember steve carrel's character in 'little miss sunshine' was a proust scholar."

babble aside, i'm down.

mutantpenguin 07/24/2009 #

I did this one a while ago. It's interesting, for sure!

Catra 08/ 3/2009 #

Thoughs who sent to me please resend. I lost all of them!!

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