Life

2025-09-04Answers to Proust's questionnaire (expanded)

Your favorite virtue.
Kindness.

Your favorite qualities in a man.
Kindness. Non-aggressiveness. Sincerity. Aversion to intriguing and gossiping. Intelligence.

Your favorite qualities in a woman.
Kindness. Non-aggressiveness. Sincerity. Aversion to intriguing and gossiping. Intelligence. Xyr sexual attraction to i. I's sexual attraction to xem.

Your favorite occupation.
Sexual intercourse. Looking at beautiful/sexually-arousing images. Playing interesting and fun games. Watching good movies. Daydreaming.

Your chief characteristic.
Mediocrity.

Your main fault.
Lack of ambition. Lack of initiative. Cowardice.

Your idea of happiness.
Fully and correctly functioning body + freedom from want + warm and clean living space with modern conveniences + safety + connection to society and freedom from it.

Your idea of misery.
Physical / mental disability / incessant pain in body / severe constant anxiety.

If not yourself, who would you be?
Someone healthier, richer, taller, fitter, smarter than i.

Where would you like to live?
In a place with Mediterranean-like or subtropical climate, in a big city on the sea shore, with highly developed infrastructure and amenities, including fully autonomous all-day working public transport, omnipresent bike lanes and walking spaces, with English-speaking population. This description suits the best for the futuristic New Zealand or Southern Australia.

Your favorite heroes in fiction.
Winston Smith from George Orwell's "1984"
Benefactor from Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We"
Robinson Crusoe from Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"
Maldoror from Comte de Lautréamont's "Les Chants de Maldoror"
Sacrobosco Haselmeyer from Gustav Meyrink's works
Android David from Alien franchise
Poligraf Sharikov from Mikhail Bulgakov's "Heart of a Dog"
Josef Švejk from Jaroslav Hašek's "The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War"

Your favorite heroines in fiction.
Sonya Marmeladova from Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment"
Grace Mulligan from Lars von Trier's "Dogville"

Your favorite names.
Eugene, Aurora, Yuna, Helga, Zoey, Florian, Ingvar.

Your pet aversion.
Old age senility.

For what fault have you most toleration?
Indecision and timidity.