Morrissey & Marcel! Part 1
Bestselling Halifax author Donna Morrissey has teamed up with her daughter Bridgette to produce Cross Katie Kross, a storybook for children based upon a dream by the elder Morrissey. In the first of back-to-back Proust Questionnaires, mother and daughter share two sides of the same psyche.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
anxietyWhere would you like to live?
Halifax, but with no snow.What is your idea of earthly happiness?
peace of mindTo what faults do you feel most indulgent?
addictions and vanityWho are your favorite heroes of fiction?
David, in the Mountain and the Valley, by Ernest Buckler, Daniel Derunda in Daniel Derunda by George Eliot, and Jim in Lord Jim by Joseph ComradWho are your favorite characters in history?
Carol Jung and Saint AugustineWho are your favorite heroines in real life?
My daughter and my sistersWho are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Dorthea in Middle March by George ElliottYour favorite painter?
Bridgette MorrisseyYour favorite musician?
Ron HynesThe quality you most admire in a man?
honestyThe quality you most admire in a woman?
honesty Your favorite virtue?
honestyYour favorite occupation?
Why, writing fiction, of course.Who would you have liked to be?
Janis Joplin, had she lived longer...