Study Notes Dated : 2009-09-14

Short Answer Type Questions

Question 1:
Do you play sports video games? Which ones? Is playing the video game or playing
the sport more fun? Why?
Answer :
Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There
is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

Question 2:
Do you wish there were more or fewer holidays? Why?
Answer :
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself
alive. As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the
fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives
constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and
manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Question 3:
What is something popular now that annoys you?
Answer :
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate
into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very
general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

Question 4:
What personal goals do you have?
Answer :
Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught
from the pantomime of brutes?

Question 5:
What did you do on your last vacation?
Answer :
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Question 6:
Have you ever saved an animal's life? How about a person's life?
Answer :
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory
of a wrong.

Question 7:
What book genres do you like to read?
Answer :
To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria
where language is both too much and too little, excessive ... and impoverished.

Question 8:
What do you like to do in the spring?
Answer :
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin
it.

Question 9:
What is your favorite cuisine or type of food?
Answer :
The eyes that see God are the same eyes through which God sees me.

Question 10:
An app mysteriously appears on your phone that does something amazing. What does it
do?
Answer :
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that
one thing is better than another.