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The questionaire below is taken from Vanity Fair's interview with Margaret Atwood. These are my answers:
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
80s dance floor with coffee, bread and butter on a nearby table
What is your greatest fear?
Having to live through a Mad Max world in my old age
Which living person do you most admire?
Arundhati Roy
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Wearing trousers that are too short
What is your greatest extravagance?
Buying Suede's re-mastered first album.
What is your favorite journey?
Eurostar to Paris
On what occasion do you lie?
Either when I'm dealing with a nutnut or when I think the truth might hurt the other person.
Which living person do you most despise?
I generally despise people who put profits over people and the environment but I can't zero in on anyone that's worse than the others.
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
"So", "right"
What is your greatest regret?
Not having come out when I was a teenager
When and where were you happiest?
I'm very happy right now
What is your current state of mind?
Happily stressed with work; looking forward to home time
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My voice would be the male equivalent of Whitney Houston/Leona Lewis
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Taking down the whole of LJ by simply posting some Arcade Fire lyrics
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
A quartz cave under the sea
If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be?
An unputdownable book
What is your most treasured possession?
My VHS tape of the Best of the Smiths
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Only the happy can afford to enjoy misery
Where would you like to live?
By the sea
What is your favorite occupation?
Getting paid to go to poetry readings and art shows!
What is your most marked characteristic?
Everyone who meets me works their way to asking where my accent is from
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Finely shaped calves
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Measured words
Who are your favorite writers?
Barbara Kingsolver (new addition), Margaret Atwood, Alan Hollinghurst, Zadie Smith (as a speaker), Toni Morrison (never read a word of hers though), Agatha Christie, Ursula K Le Guin, Morrissey, Shakespeare, David Mitchell... where are my brasilian writers?
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Siddhartha
Who are your heroes in real life?
Arundhati Roy and all those other people speaking up
What is it that you most dislike?
People who wear slightly too short trousers
How would you like to die?
By surprise
What is your motto?
"He said I had the luck of a son
With all the love and poison of London" - Suede
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Date: 2011-06-07 08:21 pm (UTC)Alan Hollinghurst has a new book out in a month's time, by the way
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Date: 2011-06-08 06:23 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to that new Hollinghurst - it sounds epic.
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Date: 2011-06-07 09:17 pm (UTC)My ex-boss Nigel, the one I had an all-consuming crush on for about 3 years, once submitted a joke research proposal when he was training as a mental health nurse proposing to investigate the relationship between trouser length and mental health status. E.g. that men with too short trousers are all barking mad essentially :-D
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