__1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Leisure time, and the resources needed, to pursue interests without impediment.
__2.__What is your greatest fear?
Not having any of the above, or rather more so: the death of those I love.
__3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My many sinful abominations.
__4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Theirs.
__5.__Which living person do you most admire?
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski.
__6.__What is your greatest extravagance?
Being an amateur, probably my professional cameras and lenses.
__7.__What is your current state of mind?
Apprehension concerning the political future of the country.
__8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Self-discipline, especially when embodied in patience.
__9.__On what occasion do you lie?
Only during questionnaires, or police questioning.
__10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance?
That waistline of eternal improvement.
__11.__Which living person do you most despise?
Donald Milhous Trump.
__12.__What is the quality you most like in a man?
Ease of humor.
__13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman?
If she likes me.
__14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"That being said..." or "To be honest..."
__15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My best friend, Jesus H. Christ.
__16.__When and where were you happiest?
Recently, since reconciling my family. Historically, the early days of the electronic house music explosion ~ 89-92. The three year summer of love.
__17.__Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to sketch creatively with an eye for composition, character, and abbreviation of line without sensual loss.
__18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
That I would feel less lonely.
__19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I have written some prose passages and poems that I'm proud of.
__20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Woody Allen's finger.
__21.__Where would you most like to live?
Far into the distant future.
__22.__What is your most treasured possession?
My Martin 16GT dreadnought acoustic guitar.
__23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
I have had several periods in my life in which I was near suicidal - those.
__24.__What is your favorite occupation?
Musical performer.
__25.__What is your most marked characteristic?
Irony, satirical distance.
__26.__What do you most value in your friends?
Warmth.
__27.__Who are your favorite writers?
Salter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hamsun, Thompson, Bukowski, Dostoyevski, Genet. I am neglecting too many here.
__28.__Who is your hero of fiction?
Darling, Raskolnikov, or maybe the unnamed narrator of Hunger.
__29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Joe Gould or the Marquis de Sade.
__30.__Who are your heroes in real life?
Christopher Hitchens.
__31.__What are your favorite names?
Gaylord and Cornelius for men. Tatiana and Periwinkle for women. They're family names.
__32.__What is it that you most dislike?
Washing clothes in a machine that doesn't work.
__33.__What is your greatest regret?
Allowing my love to devolve into acrimony.
__34.__How would you like to die?
Painlessly and unexpectedly, just after asking someone to "Please stop that!"
__35.__What is your motto?
Leisure time, and the resources needed, to pursue interests without impediment.
__2.__What is your greatest fear?
Not having any of the above, or rather more so: the death of those I love.
__3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My many sinful abominations.
__4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Theirs.
__5.__Which living person do you most admire?
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski.
__6.__What is your greatest extravagance?
Being an amateur, probably my professional cameras and lenses.
__7.__What is your current state of mind?
Apprehension concerning the political future of the country.
__8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Self-discipline, especially when embodied in patience.
__9.__On what occasion do you lie?
Only during questionnaires, or police questioning.
__10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance?
That waistline of eternal improvement.
__11.__Which living person do you most despise?
Donald Milhous Trump.
__12.__What is the quality you most like in a man?
Ease of humor.
__13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman?
If she likes me.
__14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"That being said..." or "To be honest..."
__15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My best friend, Jesus H. Christ.
__16.__When and where were you happiest?
Recently, since reconciling my family. Historically, the early days of the electronic house music explosion ~ 89-92. The three year summer of love.
__17.__Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to sketch creatively with an eye for composition, character, and abbreviation of line without sensual loss.
__18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
That I would feel less lonely.
__19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I have written some prose passages and poems that I'm proud of.
__20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Woody Allen's finger.
__21.__Where would you most like to live?
Far into the distant future.
__22.__What is your most treasured possession?
My Martin 16GT dreadnought acoustic guitar.
__23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
I have had several periods in my life in which I was near suicidal - those.
__24.__What is your favorite occupation?
Musical performer.
__25.__What is your most marked characteristic?
Irony, satirical distance.
__26.__What do you most value in your friends?
Warmth.
__27.__Who are your favorite writers?
Salter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Hamsun, Thompson, Bukowski, Dostoyevski, Genet. I am neglecting too many here.
__28.__Who is your hero of fiction?
Darling, Raskolnikov, or maybe the unnamed narrator of Hunger.
__29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Joe Gould or the Marquis de Sade.
__30.__Who are your heroes in real life?
Christopher Hitchens.
__31.__What are your favorite names?
Gaylord and Cornelius for men. Tatiana and Periwinkle for women. They're family names.
__32.__What is it that you most dislike?
Washing clothes in a machine that doesn't work.
__33.__What is your greatest regret?
Allowing my love to devolve into acrimony.
__34.__How would you like to die?
Painlessly and unexpectedly, just after asking someone to "Please stop that!"
__35.__What is your motto?
Have others laugh, cruelty is inexcusable; bring a nice bottle of wine.
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