4/15/26

New on TSC | The Proust Questionnaire | Hoshang Merchant

Delhi, August 2025, taken by Jerry Pyrtuh


Perfect happiness?

HM:Absence of all pain

My most marked characteristic?

HM:Individuality, my voice 

Greatest extravagance?

HM:Keeping/ Travelling to lovers 

Fav occupation? 

HM:Writing/ Being solicitous to friends 

Deplore in others?

HM:Self righteousness/ Madness

Greatest regret?

HM:Not forgiving my father 

Most deplore in self?

HM:Anger

What change in self ?

HM:Become practical 

Whom I despise?

HM:Trump

When would I lie?

HM:To save a friend 

Most overrated virtue?

HM:Society respectability

Lowest misery? 

HM:Abject poverty

Most like in men?

HM:Physical beauty/ loyalty 

Most like in women? 

HM:Intelligence/ loyalty 

Fictional hero? 

HM:Krishna / Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

In real life?

HM:Anais Nin

Favourite journey? 

HM:Darjeeling, Isfahan, Jerusalem, Borobudur 

Ideal Death? 

HM:In bed, with a lover beside me 

Motto?  

HM:Think long / write fast ( Hemingway)

To be reborn as? 

HM:Hart Crane/ Lorca/ Montgomery Clift

Hate most?

HM:Social hypocrisy 

My favourite words? 

HM:Liberation/ individuation

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