{"id":260,"date":"2004-02-16T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2004-02-17T02:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/02\/16\/proust-questionnaire\/"},"modified":"2004-02-16T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2004-02-17T02:10:23","slug":"proust-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/02\/16\/proust-questionnaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Proust Questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a206'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>As some of you know, I am a magazine junkie, but I&#8217;m a little weird about what magazines I&#8217;ll publicly acknowledge reading.&nbsp; Though, for the purpose of this post, I&nbsp;must admit that I sometimes pick up a copy of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.subscriberdirect.com\/vf\/0403\/\"><EM>Vanity Fair<\/EM><\/A>, which is essentially the <EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalenquirer.com\/\">National Enquirer<\/A><\/EM> in nice wrapping.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>But on to my main point, VF forces celebrities to answer a modified version of the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.chick.net\/proust\/question.html\">Proust Questionnaire<\/A>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m very curious about your answers to the Proust Questionnaire, so if you&#8217;re procrastinating, and you&nbsp; feel like obliging me, email me with your responses. (Warning some of you will get spammed with the questionnaire in a day or so.)<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI>Your most marked characteristic?<br \/>\n<LI>The quality you most like in a man?<br \/>\n<LI>The quality you most like in a woman?<br \/>\n<LI>What do you most value in your friends?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your principle defect?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your favorite occupation?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your dream of happiness?<br \/>\n<LI>What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?<br \/>\n<LI>What would you like to be?&nbsp;<br \/>\n<LI>In what country would you like to live?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your favorite color?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your favorite flower?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your favorite bird?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your favorite prose writers?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your favoite poets?<br \/>\n<LI>Who is your favorite hero of fiction?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your favorite composers?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your favorite painters?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your heroes in real life?<br \/>\n<LI>Who are your favorite heroines of history?<br \/>\n<LI>What are your favorite names?<br \/>\n<LI>What is it you most dislike?<br \/>\n<LI>What historical figures do you most despise?<br \/>\n<LI>What event in military history do you most admire?<br \/>\n<LI>What reform do you most admire?<br \/>\n<LI>What natural gift would you most like to possess?<br \/>\n<LI>How would you like to die?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your present state of mind?<br \/>\n<LI>To what faults do you feel most indulgent?<br \/>\n<LI>What is your motto?<\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you know, I am a magazine junkie, but I&#8217;m a little weird about what magazines I&#8217;ll publicly acknowledge reading.&nbsp; Though, for the purpose of this post, I&nbsp;must admit that I sometimes pick up a copy of Vanity Fair, which is essentially the National Enquirer in nice wrapping. But on to my main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}