one long ego trip

Bernard Pivot always submitted  his version of Proust's questionnaire at the end of his TV programme. Just for info, Proust's version was in fact imagined by Antoinette Faure who was at school with Proust. The questionnaire was made famous by the fact that Proust answered it.  It's here

what is your favorite word love

what word do you hate kill

what is your favorite drug sex and acid 

which sound do you like the best ? my children laughing

which sound do you hate a smoker coughing his lungs out

favorite swear word fucking bollocks

which man or woman to illustrate a new bank note   Jesus... zenith of marketing 

the job you would least want to do a man of religion... too many lies, too much hypocrisy

plant, tree, animal that you would like to be your reincarnation an Ent

if god exists, what would you like to hear him say to you after your death and you thought that i never existed...

... but you were right...

 

Antoinette Faure's questionnaire

Your favourite virtue / patience
Your favourite qualities in a man / brotherhood
Your favourite qualities in a woman / understanding
Your chief characteristic / patience 
What you appreciate the most in your friends / trust
Your main fault / a short concentration span + i say yes
Your favourite occupation /cooking with a bottle of white wine and loud opera + cold showers in the middle of hot summer nights
Your idea of happiness / no worries
Your idea of misery /not being able to die
If not yourself, who would you be? / Bruce Wayne
Where would you like to live? / in space
Your favourite colour and flower / green for hope + sunflowers for happiness
Your favorite bird / cuckoo
Your favourite prose authors / Dumas + Hornby
Your favourite poets / Prévert and Jim Caroll
Your favourite heroes in fiction / Chicot of the Queen Margot trilogy and Spider man
Your favourite heroines in fiction / Pandora
Your favourite painters and composers / Cornelia Parker and Delibes
Your favourite heroes in real life / Ghandi and TANK MAN [5-6-89 Tiananmen square]
Your favourite heroines in real life / Ellen Mac Arthur
What characters in history do you most dislike / George W Bush
Your heroines in World history / Anne Frank 
Your favourite food and drink / soft boiled egg and white wine
Your favourite names. / Clara + Hugo
What I hate the most / hypocrisy and stinginess
World history characters I hate the most / from king Herod to Chaiman Mao, there are hundreds of mad bloodthirsty fanatics who thrive and have thrived on the illumination of power.
The military event I admire the most / the defeat of Sauron
The reform I admire the most / free condoms
The natural talent I'd like to be gifted with / a beautiful voice
How I wish to die / accomplished, therefore happy
What is your present state of mind / better and better
For what fault have you most toleration? / exess
Your favourite motto /  "a day without laughter, is a day wasted" Thank you Charles Chaplin