Monthly Archives: January 2011

The young Marcel Proust was asked to fill out questionnaires at two social events: one when he was 13, another when he was 20. Proust did not invent this party game; he is simply the most extraordinary person to respond to them. While I am not nearly the personage Marcel was, I too shall take a stab at them. Feel free to do so as well in the comments or on your own site and point me towards it in the comments. I first answered these questions in 2008. What is your idea of perfect happiness? A modest income earned by helping people, a house built with my own hands to raise my children in and to grow old in. Someone to share that life with. What is your greatest fear? To live in error through misapprehension of the truth. To be unable to speak my truth in a way that is understood by others. What historical figure do you most identify with? I don’t really identify with any great figures from history, but perhaps someone like Donald Watson. Which living person do… Read more