An apparatus for attention
a formulationof truth
You are not one self. This is not a tragedy. It is more like the weather.
The questionnaire as mirror
The Proust Questionnaire is not a test and not a profile. It is a mechanic for making the past legible in the present.A selfie taken from within.
Answer. Forget your responses. Wait. The site enforces waiting. We'll notify with an email or a telegram message if you'd prefer. The mechanic works to the degree we don't perform but as subtly powerful users of language translate the memory any one question may conjure. Delight therein or maybe struggle a bit to capture wisely with word this artifact. Truth resides in the reconstruction those events without precedent in our world, where nothing ever repeats itself exactly.
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future."
Marcel ProustWhat is your idea of perfect happiness?
These are not polite questions. They are holes in the ice. If you answer them honestly, something cold touches your feet.