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.”
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Thanks Keith and Lisa ! This will be fun to watch…
What is your idea of Happiness?
Laughing
What is your idea of misery?
Crying
What are your favorite qualities in a man?
femininity
What are your favorite qualities in a woman?
masculinity
What are your favorite qualities in Belltown?
diversity
What do you most value in your friends?
openess
Who are your favorite musicians?
the players “playing for change”
Who are your heroes and heroines in history?
Myles Horton and Marie-Bernarde Soubirous
Who are your heroes and heroines in fiction?
dr. zhivago and lara
Who are your heroes in your life?
Daniel Ransohoff in Cincinnati
What event in history do you most admire?
Alexander’s founding of the Library of Alexandria
What social movement do you most admire?
Civil Rights in the last 100 years…(thanks Keith)
What is your favorite food and drink?
bread and beer
If not yourself, who would you like to be?
my son or daughter.
If not Belltown, where would you like to live?
Woodinville
What natural gift would you like to possess?
beauty
What is your present state of mind?
older than most
Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?
tolerance
What fault do you most easily tolerate in others?
intolerance
What is your biggest pet peeve?
pets
How would you like to die?
cremated in my Nordstrom business suit.
How would you like to be remembered?
we did it without him…
What is your motto?
if I could only find my glasses, I would know what was going on.