what would proust do?

how much can you know about someone from their responses to questions?
possibly not much, although scanning through some q&a can be entertaining

it seems this was highly entertaining for young frenchies at the fin-de-siecle. in fact the young proust (at 13) and the not quite so young proust (at 20) answered some questions, which were later used (loosely) by vanity fair to quiz celebrities of varying celebrity. they call it their proust questionnaire, see what they say:
joan fontaine (march 2008)
what do you consider the most overrated virtue? virginity
on what occasion do you lie? when being tactful … or evasive.
jasper johns (december 2007)
what is your most treasured possession? my refrigerator
What is it that you most dislike? seeing fish with silver skin marinating in cream (hmm, don't we all?)
helen thomas (april 2007)
How would you like to die? With my boots on.
donald sutherland (october 2005)
What is your favorite occupation? Imagining.
karl lagerfeld (september 2005)
What or who is the greatest love of your life? My life is not over yet. There is no other way to answer such a question …
How would you like to die? I hate the idea of death—I prefer to disappear …
umberto eco (july 2005)
What is your favorite journey? The years during which I am writing a new novel. I am wandering through a private and secret territory, nobody knows what I am doing, and I feel happy.
Which living person do you most admire? Let me wait until they die, so to be sure of my feelings.

a book which may or may not have much to do with proust, but has an amusing cover, and is about the mind and how we work things out for ourselves

another take on q&a which i saw via blog was in another magazine, where visual artist Hans-Peter Feldmann answered questions posed by art critic/curator Hans Ulrich Obrist in the best way he know how: in pictures
images borrowed from katherine bowman's site (she has lots of good pictures)
this is more exciting to me - i like the ambiguity of images as well as the pleasure from taken from looking at the visual

i suppose a blog is a way of posing your own questions, and then answering them. or sometimes, answering a question and setting it up as though there was a question in there somewhere...

so, evilmonika, what makes you happy?

and if you can be bothered, ask yourself:

Where would you like to live?
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Your favorite painter?
Your favorite musician?
The quality you most admire in a man?
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Your favourite virtue?
Your favourite occupation?
Your favourite meal?