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Black Kos Tuesday: Take a breather as Chitown Kev does The Proust Questionnaire [1]
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Date: 2025-06-24
16) When and where were you happiest? Carson City, California in 1970 on the front yard of my aunt and uncle’s house blowing bubbles. I’ve had many happy moments and serene moments since then but all of the components have never combined as they did at that time and place. (I was three years old.)
17) Which talent would you most like to have? Painting. (As I’ve gotten older and stopped trying to sing Whitney Houston songs, a lot of people think that I have a voice for opera.)
18) If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I wouldn’t take the negative things that people say about me so personally.
19) What do you consider your greatest achievement? I don’t know whether not drinking or drugging can be considered an “achievement” but without it nothing else is possible for me.
20) If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I’d have to think about this one
21) Where would you most like to live? Oh...uh...Istanbul, Turkey? For a year, yeah. (It’s a James Baldwin thing and a classics thing.)
22) What is your most treasured possession? An autograph of James Baldwin with his St. Paul-de-Vence address written on it. All in his handwriting.
23) What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? I wouldn’t wish the depth of substance addiction on my worst enemy.
24) What is your favorite occupation? Besides anything concerning books and writing, taxi driver.
25) What is your most marked characteristic? If I’m honest about it, the swish in my walk.
26) What do you most value in your friends? Trust.
27) Who are your favorite writers? James Baldwin, David Foster Wallace, Jorge Luis Borges (with Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler close behind this top 3)
28) Who is your hero of fiction? Sherlock Holmes.
29) Which historical figure do you most identify with? Herodotus.
30) Who are your heroes in real life? Mom and stepdad for very different reasons.
31) What are your favorite names? I’ve grown to absolutely love my nice Irish-Catholic first name, especially since finding out that I’m named after a saint.
32) What is it that you most dislike? Frequent hypocrisy and sriracha sauce.
33) What is your greatest regret? My choice of university when I graduated high school. I had two alternatives that were much better fits for what I wanted to do.
34) How would you like to die? Slumped over the keyboard inside the answer to the first question. Mid-sentence.
35) What is your motto? A day at a time. If a day is too long, then an hour at a time. If an hour is too long, then a minute at a time.
I have finished The Proust Questionnaire so guess what?
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