After conducting a few rounds of the Proust Questionnaire with other people, I thought it was only fair to answer the questions myself. Provided below are my own answers. Please enjoy! Thanks very much to Travis Grier for help conducting the interview.
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1.What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Asleep on a beach in the shade.
2.What is your greatest fear?
Dogs.
3.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Neuroses.
4.What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Small mindedness.
5.Which living person do you most admire?
God, I'm so arrogant -- it's myself.
6.What is your greatest extravagance?
Spending time at a private social club.
7.What is your current state of mind?
Exhausted.
8.What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
I think Faith.
9.On what occasion do you lie?
When it's expedient, but not too complicated.
10.What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My bitten-up finger nails.
11.Which living person do you most despise?
My mother?! (Laughs)
12.What is the quality you most like in a man?
I think determination.
13.What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Allure. Alluring-ness.
14.Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"Right"
15.What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Oh, god, myself again.
16.When and where were you happiest?
In the womb.
17.Which talent would you most like to have?
Probably persuasion -- the art of persuasion.
18.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Slowing down. I would change the speed of my life to slow down.
19.What do you consider your greatest achievement?
20.If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A bottle of whiskey.
21.Where would you most like to live?
Estancia de Cafayete!
22.What is your most treasured possession?
My mind.
23.What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Queuing for a bureaucrat.
24.What is your favorite occupation?
Public intellectual.
25.What is your most marked characteristic?
Aloof-ness.
26.What do you most value in your friends?
Friendliness.
27.Who are your favorite writers?
It's got to be Doug Casey and John Hunt there, I'm afraid.
28.Who is your hero of fiction?
It's got to be Charles Knight from 'Speculator'.
29.Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Oh, uh, Don Quixote.
30.Who are your heroes in real life?
Morally consistent people.
31.What are your favorite names?
Victoria and Ashton.
32.What is it that you most dislike?
Time.
33.What is your greatest regret?
Being born.
34.How would you like to die?
Quickly.
35.What is your motto?
Veritate Valore Optime Agis. It's an old school motto for 'do your best through truth and courage'.
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