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Ian Muddle, ponders his meanings of life.
In 1890, long before he claimed his status as one of the greatest authors of all time Marcel Proust, still a teenager, took a questionnaire similar to this one, answering the questions with frank sincerity.
Banburyshire Info have resurrected the concept, and have started publishing answers from various local people with some questions from the Proust Questionnaire – designed to reveal the answerer’s tastes, aspirations, and sensibility.
Name: Ian Muddle Date questions answered: 31/03/16 Age: 47 Village / Town / City you live in: Banbury Occupation: PAID: Business Engagement Manager
UNPAID: Chairman of BCOS (Bicester Choral & Operatic Society),
Web/publicity/social media:- Warriner Choral Society, Akeman Voices, BCOS, MADE in Cherwell
The questions include Marcel Proust’s answers
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery
Proust: To be separated from Mama
Ian Muddle: Shortage of Chocolate
Where would you like to live?
Proust: In the country of the Ideal, or, rather, of my ideal
Ian Muddle: South of France
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Proust: To live in contact with those I love, with the beauties of nature, with a quantity of books and music, and to have, within easy distance, a French theater
Ian Muddle: Living in rural France surrounded by wine cheese and chocolate and regularly singing/performing/producing
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Proust: To a life deprived of the works of genius
Ian Muddle: Chocolate consumption
Who are your favourite heroes of fiction?
Proust: Those of romance and poetry, those who are the expression of an ideal rather than an imitation of the real
Ian Muddle: James Bond, Matthew Bourne and Danger Mouse
Who are your favourite characters in history?
Proust: A mixture of Socrates, Pericles, Mahomet, Pliny the Younger and Augustin Thierry
Ian Muddle: Mr Cadbury, Mr Green & Mr Black
Who are your favourite heroines in real life?
Proust: A woman of genius leading an ordinary life
Ian Muddle: Malala Yousafzai
Who are your favourite heroines of fiction?
Proust: Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly; everything that is tender, poetic, pure and in every way beautiful
Ian Muddle: Elpheba (Wicked) , Nancy Drew
Your favourite painter?
Proust: Meissonier
Ian Muddle: anyone who can redecorate my house !
Your favourite musician?
Proust: Mozart
Ian Muddle: Eric Whitacre
The quality you most admire in a man?
Proust: Intelligence, moral sense
Ian Muddle: Humour and Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Proust: Gentleness, naturalness, intelligence
Ian Muddle: Humour and Intelligence
Your favourite virtue?
Proust: All virtues that are not limited to a sect: the universal virtues
Ian Muddle: Empathy
Your favourite occupation?
Proust: Reading, dreaming, and writing verse
Ian Muddle: Singing/Performing in stage show/musicals
Who would you have liked to be?
Proust: Since the question does not arise, I prefer not to answer it. All the same, I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger.