Your favourite virtue ::
The endurance
Your favourite qualities in a man ::
inventiveness, elegance
Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
elegance, inventiveness
Your favourite occupation ::
to evaluate
Your idea of happiness ::
to find the correct respiration
Your idea of misery ::
taboo question
If not yourself, who would you be ::
somebody else
Where would you like to live ::
where the reception is pleasant
Your favourite colour and flower ::
My favourite flower ? Coffee tree blossom,
and my colour is the one of Joao Gilberto
Your favourite prose authors ::
André Suares, Léo Pérutz, Itsuo Tsuda, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alexandre Zinoviev, Léon Bloy, Oscar Wilde, Georges Steiner, Simone Weill, Bernanos, Flaubert, Saint-Simon, Shakespeare, Berlioz, Elie Faure
Your favourite poets ::
La Fontaine, Céline, Genet, Verlaine, Marie Huot, Desbordes-Valmore,Von Hofmannsthal, Hölderlin, Pessoa
Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Men
Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Women
Your favourite painters and composers ::
Bach, Soul, Klee, Schubert, Dalerci, Mahler, Rothko, Pergolese, Ravel, Motherwell, Soulages, Vermeer, Hindemith, Poulenc,
Your favourite heroes, heroines, in real life ::
Those not prisoners of their gregarious instincts, those assuming their happiness, those conquering the
smile inside
What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
I've got no energy to waste in disliking
Your favourite food and drink ::
passion fruit, water and wine
Your favourite names ::
Sesame
Your pet aversion ::
Rat
The reform which you most estimate ::
I 'm asking myself...
The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
To be
How I would like to die ::
As usual
What is your present state of mind ::
Work in progress
For what fault have you most toleration ::
The off-side
Your favourite motto :
A+bon sang (en français dans le texte)
15 décembre 2006
Olivier Umhauer is Photographer, author of songs, and currently living in Cherbourg - France
Blog :: Olivier Umhauer
Portrait by Didier Soul
:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890
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