普魯斯特問卷(Albertine 譯)

At the birthday party of Antoinette Felix-Faure, the 13-year-old Marcel was asked to answer the following questions in the birthday book, and here's what he said:

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? 你認為最悲慘的事？

To be separated from Mama 和媽媽分開

• Where would you like to live? 你希望住在那裡？

In the country of the Ideal, or, rather, of my ideal 理想的國度，也就是，我自己所要的那種理想國度

• What is your idea of earthly happiness? 你認為俗世快樂是什麼？

To live in contact with those I love, with the beauties of nature, with a quantity of books and music, and to have, within easy distance, a French theater 過著和我所愛的人接觸、身處自然之美、擁有很多書本與音樂、以及住得和劇院距離不遠的生活

• To what faults do you feel most indulgent? 什麼缺點你最寬容？

To a life deprived of the works of genius 沒有天份的人

• Who are your favorite heroes of fiction? 最喜歡的小說主角？

Those of romance and poetry, those who are the expression of an ideal rather than an imitation of the real 羅曼史中與詩中的，傳達理念而非仿傚實際(體力)英雄的

• Who are your favorite characters in history? 歷史上最喜歡的人？

A mixture of Socrates, Pericles, Mahomet, Pliny the Younger and Augustin Thierry 蘇格拉底、佩里克利斯（莎士比亞）、穆罕默德、小蒲林尼（著名的博物學家，死于AD 79 維蘇威）、梯葉里（1795-1856, 法國歷史學家﹑作家）的綜合體

• Who are your favorite heroines in real life? 真實世界最喜歡的女英雄？

A woman of genius leading an ordinary life 天才女性過著平凡的生活

• Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? 最喜歡的小說女主角？

Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly; everything that is tender, poetic, pure and in every way beautiful 那些不停追求女性特質的女性；任何溫柔、詩意、純粹、各方面都美麗的東西

• Your favorite painter? 最喜歡的畫家

Meissonier梅索尼埃（法國, 1815-95）

• Your favorite musician? 最喜歡的音樂家

Mozart 莫札特

• The quality you most admire in a man? 男性最讓你欣賞的特質？

Intelligence, moral sense 智慧、道德感

• The quality you most admire in a woman? 女性最讓你欣賞的特質？

Gentleness, naturalness, intelligence 溫柔、自然、智慧

• Your favorite virtue? 最喜歡的美德？

All virtues that are not limited to a sect: the universal virtues 所有美德，不被某些標準限制；世界性的美德

• Your favorite occupation? 最喜歡的工作？

Reading, dreaming, and writing verse 讀書、作夢、寫詩

• Who would you have liked to be? 希望做什麼樣的人？

Since the question does not arise, I prefer not to answer it. All the same, I should very much have liked to be Pliny the Younger. 既然還沒有到時候，我寧可不回答。同理，我應該很想當小蒲林尼

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