BRANT WITHERS


Your favorite virtue ::
​Civility.

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
Impulse control.

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
Bookishness.

Your favorite occupation ::
See below: 'Your favorite food and drink'.

Your idea of happiness ::
Little birds in the morning.

Your idea of misery ::
'Hard determinist' incompatabilism.

If not yourself, who would like to be ::
Curious George.

Where would you like to live ::
Amsterdam, Vienna, Prague.

Your favorite color and flower ::
Indigo; orange blossom.

Your favorite prose authors ::
Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Faulkner, Borges.

Your favorite poets ::
Apollinaire, Marinetti, Neruda, Rilke, Artaud.

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
'Ein Hungerkünstler'.

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Pippi Longstocking.

Your favorite painters and composers ::
Bruegel the Elder, Picabia. Feldman, Varèse.

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
André Malraux.

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Harriet Tubman.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Too many to list, especially now.

Your favorite food and drink ::
Espresso or black coffee with mousse cake.

Your favorite names ::
Filboid Studge; Sweepy (my dog).

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
The virulent 'moral champion'.

The change you most anticipate ::
Increasing diffraction.

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
To draw oxygen from bullshit.

How you would like to die ::
To be shot from the middle of 5th Avenue by Donald Trump.

What is your present state of mind ::
Vagueness.

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
Consequentialism.

Your favorite motto ::
"A witty saying proves nothing." Voltaire

15 mars 2019 - 00:56

Brant Withers, aka Sinus Buds, is a visual artist and musician. Brant is living in Los Angeles.

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