These are the people in your neighborhood

The Proust Questionnaire is a questionnaire about one’s personality. Its name and modern popularity as a form of interview is owed to the responses given by French writer Marcel Proust.

At the end of the nineteenth century, he answered a questionnaire in a confession album belonging to his friend.  At that time, it was popular among English families to answer such a list of questions that revealed the tastes and aspirations of the taker and Proust always answered with enthusiasm

So, compare your answers to fellow Belltown denizens.  We’ll corner some local personalities to answer our questionnaire on living, working and playing in Belltown.

For our inaugural Belltown Proust questionnaire, we asked Keith Kentop,  Mr. Belltown 2012, to share his thoughts about love, life, fear and beer.  And of course, Belltown.

What is your idea of Happiness?

Formal dinner parties with family and friends.

 

What is your idea of misery?

Hopelessness… and warm, flat beer

 

What are your favorite qualities in a man?

Creativity, diligence, compassion

 

What are your favorite qualities in a woman?

Charm, guile, deviance

 

What are your favorite qualities in Belltown?

Community conscience, diversity, tolerance of douchbaggery 

 

What do you most value in your friends?

Staying in touch

 

Who are your favorite musicians?

Presley, Basie, Ellington, Strummer and … Manilow

 

Who are your heroes and heroines in history?

Francis Albert Sinatra, Coco Chanel

 

Who are your heroes and heroines in fiction?

Jim Rockford, John Maclean, Lois Lane

 

Who are your heroes in your life?

Carol Kentop, R.N. (ret) Devin Carlen

 

What event in history do you most admire?

The invention of beer… it literally saved the world

 

What social movement do you most admire?

Civil Rights in the last 100 years

 

What is your favorite food and drink?

Toss up:  champagne & oysters or Dr. Pepper & Fritos

 

If not yourself, who would you like to be?

Hal Needham, Worlds Greatest Stuntman

 

If not Belltown, where would you like to live?

Palm Springs (you know when)

 

What natural gift would you like to possess?

Innate musical talent

 

What is your present state of mind?

Hopeful

 

Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate? 

Compulsivity

 

What fault do you most easily tolerate in others?

 My own

 

What is your biggest pet peeve?

Anyone who uses their horn for more than half a second

 

How would you like to die?

In my sleep, like my Grandpa… not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus

 

How would you like to be remembered?

… “he was such a nice boy”

 

What is your motto?

“I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”