The Infamous Proust Questionnare discussion

1. Complete, profound lonliness.
2. I already LOVE where I live! (Once you've seen the sapphire blue sky of a Spring afternoon in Southern Australia, you'll know why I say that.)
3. Sharing a meal and an outrageous, long-lasting belly laugh with people I love.
4. Hmm... seeing as I'm doing this and not my Uni assignments, I'm going to second Zoe on procrastination. And gluttony.
5. Arthur Dent, for understanding the criticality of sandwiches. Sherlock Holmes, respect for his logic!
6. Fanya Kaplan
7. Vincent Lingiari, Dr Vandana Shiva
8. Rene Margritte
9. Xavier Rudd
10. Humility, a wicked sense of humour!
11. Humility, determination, self-belief
12. Ummm... humility.
13. Studying to be an English teacher. I hope that becomes my favourite occupation!! Apart from that, am utterly obsessed with sign language.
14. Posh Spice! Imagine waking up to David Beckham every morning! (not very noble, I know!)
15. Gregariousness

Wow, that was tough. Particularly the favourite musician thing. Favourite composer is very different to favourite singer is very different to favourite song writer etc etc...
So while Xav covers all 3 bases for me, if they were split, it'd be a very different story.
Favourite musician - Mark Knopfler
Favourite composer - Vivaldi
Favourite songwriter - the fabulous, incomparable genius of Paul Kelly (as seen at...)
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6VGHfpv...

Oh yes Zoe! I'm only just starting on this adventure of being an English Lit. teacher (about time too, why did I spend all those years in corporate training? oh yeah, the money!). I hope to teach in a bi-lingual classroom (i.e., using sign language as well as English), but I intend to frequently and repeatedly turn to you for answers and guidance!

1. I don't think I'm qualified to answer this.
2. Somewhere else, for a while.
3. When you hear a favorite song like its the first time again.
4. Flight, melancholy
5. Josef K, Oleg Kostoglotov, Mynheer Peepercorn, Faust
6. Nietzsche, Tellyrand, Semmelweis
7. Hideo Kojima, David Lynch
8. Giorgio de Chirico
9. Stephen Malkmus, John Coltrane
10. Keen eye
11. True care
12. Righteous indignation
13. reading, listening, watching
14. that is a very hard question.
15. bored but capable

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? a yearning for something more without the means to take you there.
2. Where would you like to live? I love living here in Melbourne, Australia (though I'd prefer to live in the city), but I want to live in a lot of places at least for a bit of time, such as France, Mauritius, Rwanda, Suriname, and so on.
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? A large pile of good books, the time and patience to read them and lots of good friends to discuss them with.
4. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? the tendency to depression
5. Who are your favorite heroes of fiction? Tintin, Yossarian, Macbeth (arguably not a hero?)
6. Who are your favorite characters in history? Marie Curie, Leon Trotsky
7. Who are your favorite heroes/heroines in real life? A friend of mine
9. Your favorite painter? Yves Klein.
10. Your favorite composer? Ravel
11. The quality you most admire in a man? Open-mindedness, humility
12. The quality you most admire in a woman? Empathy, open-mindedness
13. Your favorite virtue? Determination
14. Your favorite occupation? Physicist, translator of poetry/fiction, art restorer, dancer
15. Who would you have liked to be? An explorer.

Hey! I don't get what this has to do with Proust (I've only read Swann's Way, is this questionnaire a reference to a later book?) but I'll try my best:

1. living in constant fear/paranoia
2. Barcelona
3. cool morning air, nostalgia, and the road
4. wasting time
5. Calvin and Hobbes. and Holden Caulfield
6. Salvador Dali, Werner Herzog
7. Ghandi, Ozu, Chekhov
8. Rothko, Schiele
9. the members of Yo La Tengo
10. integrity, humility, intelligence
11. integrity, sense of humor, creativity, intelligence
12. honesty
13. musician/drummer, or world explorer
14. Bob Dylan
15. indecisiveness