A popular past time in the 19th century was the shared Confession Album, a series of thought-provoking questions to assist the reader in understanding more about their priorities and the priorities of their friends. The questions commonly found in such Confession Albums later made up the famous Proust Questionnaire and have been further adapted in several recognizable forms. Many noteworthy people of the time engaged in the Confession Album and Oscar Wilde completed a similar series of questions during his time at Oxford. So for my own amusement, I decided to complete my own Confession Album and would encourage others to do the same and enjoy some classic Victorian entertainment.
Your Favorite Virtue: Honesty
Your Favorite Qualities in a Man: Intelligence, Ambition, Artistic Appreciation
Your Favorite Qualities in a Woman: Kindness, Confidence, Sincerity
Your Favorite Occupation: Watching classic films
Your Chief Characteristic: Curiosity
What You Appreciate the Most in Your Friends?: Loyalty
Your Main Fault: Lethargy
Your Idea of Happiness: Season tickets to the Opera
Your Idea of Misery: Wasting my time
Your Favorite Color: Emerald Green
Your Favorite Flower: Red and Orange Roses
If Not Yourself, Who Would You Be?: My sister (any one of them)
Where Would You Like to Live?: Near a forest
Your Favorite Prose Authors: Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Gaston Leroux
Your Favorite Painters: Renoir, Blake, Burne-Jones, Rossetti
Your Favorite Composers: Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, Bizet, Gounod
Your Favorite Heroes in Real Life: St. Francis de Sales, John Adams, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Your Favorite Heroines in Real Life: Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell
Your Favorite Heroes in Fiction: Cyrano de Bergerac, Sherlock Holmes, Hamlet
Your Favorite Heroines in Fiction: Jane Eyre, Shirley Keeldar, Beatrice
Your Favorite Food and Drink: Milanesa and Coca-Cola
Your Favorite Names: Christine, Julia, James, Richard
Your Pet Aversion: Music that makes me think of the color yellow
What characters in history do you most dislike?: Politicians-all of them
What is your present state of mind?: Amused
For what fault have you most toleration?: Pride
Your favorite motto: “As my whimsy takes me”-borrowed from Lord Peter Wimsey
The natural talent I’d like to be gifted with: Perfect pitch
How I wish to die: Painlessly
Recommendations
Music: “I Drove All Night”-Cyndi Lauper
Book: “The Thing on the Door Step”-H.P. Lovecraft
Film:The Craft (1996)
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