A Completely Pilfered Blog...

Good Morning All;

It is the middle of the night here. I have been wandering aimlessly through my own little cyberworld, (and yours); battling my head, (and of course I have my sunglasses on at 1:15 in the AM)...

And so, (with permission), I have stolen this blog, almost in its entirety.

This, from my friend ...m... >CLICK HERE< for his own blog.

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The Belle Epoche --

A young lad of 13 named Marcel Proust was asked some questions as l'amusement de soiree, pour l'anniversaire de Mlle. Antoinette Felix-Faure.

In her birthday book, the questions read:

1. what is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. what is your greatest fear?
3. which historical figure do you most identify with?
4. which living person do you most admire?
5. what is the trait that you most deplore in yourself?
6. what is the trait that you most deplore in others?
7. what is your greatest extravagance?
8. what is your favorite journey?
9. On what occasion do you lie?
10. what do you dislike most about your appearance?
11. which living person do you most despise?
12. what is your greatest regret?
13. what or who is the greatest love of your life?
14. when and where were you the happiest?
15. if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
16. what do you consider your greatest achievement?
17. if you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
18. what is your most treasured possession?
19. what is your most marked characteristic?
20. what do you most value in your friends?
21. who are your favorite writers?
22. who is your favorite hero of fiction?
23. who are your heroes in real life?
24. what is it that you most dislike?
25. what is your motto?

Proust's responses then (and again at another party he attended at age 20) gave him status as a "genious" thinker among those of his day even though he revealed that he was sincerely a "mama's boy."

As recently as July of 1996, Graydon Carter and his Senior Editor Amiee Bell decided to feature celebrity responses in the same format in Conde Nast's VanityFair magazine: www.vanityfair.com and the format also appears with Bravo's "Inside the Actor's Studio" hosted by James Lipton and liberally parodied by The Simpsons: http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio

I offer this as a different form of the "tag" stuff that permeates the blogosphere (and Yahoo 360, specifically).

Please ignore, nip, tuck, segment, paste and/or respond wholly or in part, as you desire.

Take your time. (Proust himself didn't complete the entire list for seven years).

For more info on Marcel Proust, please note the book, "Proust: Portrait of a Genious" by Andre Maurois.

Thank you ...m...

I hope yourself, and everyone else too, is having a "wunnaful" Wednesday. I am going to try to get some sleep for now...

XOXO
Anne

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