This is entry number 750 in this online journal. I’d like to take a little bit of time to archive some data. It is one of my peculiar imbecilities that I love meaningless statistics. Therefore, consider these statistics: Every journal entry falls into at least one of sixteen categories. This… Read More »Number 750
Proust Quote:“What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.” We have come to the end of the days where I will answer any more Proust questions. I hope some people got something out of this little exercise. I will give special thanks… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Sixteen
Proust Quote: “Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.” Confessions Question: What I hate the most. Confidences Question: What I hate most of all. Proust’s Answer: What is bad about me. I’m clearly too arrogant to hate what is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Fifteen
Proust Quote: “The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.” Confessions Question: Your idea of misery. Confidences Question: What would be my greatest misfortune? Proust’s Answer: Not to have known my mother or grandmother. I once stated that the greatest misery is waiting for… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Fourteen
Proust Quote: “Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.” Confessions Question: Your favorite qualities in a woman. Confidences Question: The quality I desire in a woman. Proust’s Answer: Manly virtues, and frankness in friendship. I do have to repeat – “Did I mention that Proust was gay?”… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Thirteen
Proust Quote: “All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.” Confessions Question: Your main fault. Confidences Question: My main fault. Proust’s Answer: Not knowing, not being able to “want”. Ye be warned, any that go much further. What lies below is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Twelve
Proust Quote:“People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.” Confessions Question:Your favourite occupation. Confidences Question:My favorite occupation. Proust’s Answer:Loving. Proust does give a pretty darn good answer to this question. But if you were to define occupation as… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Eleven
Proust Quote: “Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.” Confessions Question: Your idea of happiness Confidences Question: My dream of happiness. Proust’s Answer: I am afraid it be not great enough, I dare not speak it, I am afraid of destroying it by speaking it. That… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Ten
Proust Quote:“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.” Confessions Question:Where would you like to live? Confidences Question:The country where I should like to live. Proust’s Answer:A country where certain things that I should like would come true as though by magic, and where tenderness… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Nine
Proust Quote:“Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.” Confessions Question:Your favorite names. Confidences Question:My favorite names. Proust’s Answer:I only have one at a time. The Proust Quote really nails this… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Eight
Proust Quote: “Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.” Confessions Question: Your favorite poets. Confidences Question: My favorite poets. Proust’s Answer: Baudelaire and Alfred de Vigny I’m not sure that there are any poets that I have “discovered” this year.… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Seven
Marcel Proust Quote: “Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.” Confessions Question: The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with. Confidences Question: The gift of nature I would like to have. Proust’s Answer: Will-power, and seductiveness. I have many extremely talented friends.… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Six
Marcel Proust Quote:“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.” Confessions Question:Your favorite qualities in a man. Confidences Question:The quality that I desire in a man. Proust’s Answer:Feminine charms. Proust and I diverge quite a bit on this answer. (Did I mention that… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Five
Marcel Proust Quote: “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” Confessions Question: Your favorite motto. Confidences Question: My motto. Proust’s Answer: I should be too afraid that it bring me misfortune. The truth is that while I learned many a thing this year, I… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Four
Marcel Proust Quote: “We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.” Confessions Question: Your favorite colour and flower. Confidences Question: My favorite colour. There… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Three
Marcel Proust Quote: “We become moral when we are unhappy.” Confessions Question: What you appreciate the most in your friends. Confidences Question: What I appreciate most about my friends. Proust’s Answer: To have tenderness for me, if their personage is exquisite enough to render quite high the price of their… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number Two
Marcel Proust filled out the questionnaire twice. The first time was in either 1885 or 1886 in an English confessions album. The second time was in either 1891 or 1892 in the French album Les confidences de salon. There are some questions unique to both questionnaires and the wording is… Read More »Proust Questionnaire Number One
As the year is winding down and I am trying to set aside more time for photo projects I have decided to do something a little bit different with this Journal in the month of December. I’ve decided to reflect on the accomplishments and failures of this past year. The… Read More »Formulaic Catechism
This a journal entry that is bound to be of very little interest to most, but a little general housekeeping must be done. The website has been hit by small amounts of Spam lately. I have had to make a couple of small and not that regrettable changes to prevent… Read More »Meat in a Can
This is journal entry number 700. I started this online journal on August 9, 2006. These were the first words that I typed out: So here is the first journal entry. I felt like having as pretentious sounding name as possible for my journal. I have a few goals about… Read More »An Old Newspaper
A brief break from Africa for a moment. Over a year ago I signed up for a Twitter account. I tweeted briefly and then decided I could not be that self-absorbed. I already have an extensive website and a blog devoted to me, why did I need to take it… Read More »Desultory