Proustian interview declined

We can do this interview straight or we can take a Proustian approach.

I’m not sure I understand what you mean by straight. When someone says something is straight and to the point it usually ends up crooked as a dog’s hind leg. And what’s this Proust thing?

A game, a diversion. A series of questions young people asked each other at parties in the late 1800s, when Proust was young. They interviewed each other about their likes, favorites, heroes, and their dislikes, defects and faults. A profile of the interviewee emerged.

Sounds challenging and overly-revealing. What sort of questions are straight ones?

The usual. What do you think of this, how do you like that, why do you think the other. You know.

Sounds less work, less scary even.

But the interviewer has to work harder to get at the nitty-gritty.

Good. Stop moaning. Let’s leave Proust for another day.

Pity about that.

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