Are your relations with the world characterized by flatness of affect?
Yes Do you browse through railway timetables, directories, or dictionaries just for pleasure?
Y Do you really think you know what "pleasure" means?
Y When asked to make a decision, would you be swayed by your like or dislike
of the personality involved?
Y Let's say you hate the person and she or he is really rich. Same answer?
Y Would you prefer to be in a position where you did not have the responsibilities of making decisions?
Y Would you prefer to be in a position of power whilst servile eunuchs pleasured you with readings from Goethe?
Y Would the idea of inflicting pain on game, small animals or fish prevent you from hunting or fishing?
Y Do you have any idea why that question is being asked of you at this juncture?
Y Are you often impulsive in your behavior?
Y Would you consider being impulsive in behavior involving Daniel Winterstein and a jar of olives?
Y Are you usually concerned about the need to protect your health?
Y Does the proximity of the previous two questions unnerve, yet somehow titillate you?
Y Does an unexpected action cause your muscles to twitch?
Y Do you wonder why you are repeatedly being asked about fast-twitch muscle response?
Y Do you consider that you could give a valid "snap judgment"?
Y
Do your twitches often resemble snaps?
Y Is it normally hard for you to "own up and take the blame"?
Y
Doesn't that always just depend on circumstances?
Y
Do you have a small circle of close friends, rather than a large number of friends?
Y Do you have a circle of small hamsters, rather than a single large yak?
Y Is your life a constant struggle for survival?
Y Are you a drama queen from hell?
Y Do you often sing or whistle just for fun?
Y Do you often sing or whistle just for the sake of annoying those around you?
Y Would the idea of making a complete new start cause you much concern?
Y Would you be willing to straddle the back of my hog and ride off into a sun
set of sweat, cold steel, hot leather, and mad passion?
Y Do you make efforts to get others to laugh and smile?
Y Do these efforts ever pay off?
Y
Do you know what would constitute a "pay-off"? Y
Do you find it easy to express your emotions?
Y Do you find yourself to be confused as to what you're feeling these days?
Y Do you want to know what love is?
Y Do you want me to show you?
Y Are you rarely happy, unless you have a special reason?
Y Would the ontological fact of Daniel Winterstein constitute such a reason?
Y Do you "circulate around" at a social gathering?
Y Do you "flirt and vomit" at a social gathering?
Y Are you "always getting into trouble"?
Y
Would you be interested in "getting into trouble" with Daniel Winterstein and
his collection of wind-up toys?
Y
Do you consider the good of all concerned rather than your own personal advantages?
Y Do you get a selfish thrill out of thinking you're ethical?
Y When hearing a lecturer, do you sometimes experience the idea that the speaker is referring entirely to you?
Y Does this happen often in lectures about God?
Y Do you take yourself to be omnipotent, omniscient, and uncaused?
Y
Does "external noise" often interfere with your concentration?
Y What about "internal voices?"
Y
Do you speedily recover from the effects of bad news?
Y Are you newly recovered from the effects of bad speed?
Y When you criticize - do you at the same time try to encourage?
Y When you encourage, do you patronize?
Do you enjoy activities of your own choosing?
Y Do you enjoy being told what it is you'd choose, if only you were cool enough?
Y Does emotional music have quite an effect on you?
Y If not, are you sure its emotional, or are you just parroting the rhetoric of critics?
Y Do you often "sit and think" about death, sickness, pain and sorrow?
Y Do you often "fuck and run" from death, sickness, pain and sorrow?
Y Are you perturbed at the idea of loss of dignity?
Y Dignity in the abstract?
Y Do you really have any idea what "dignity in the abstract" means?
Y Are you openly appreciative of beautiful things?
Y Do you find beautiful things invite your detestation, for they remind you of your own fleshy inadequacies?
Y Do you sometimes give away articles which strictly speaking do not belong
to you?
Y May I come over and look through your roommates record collection?
Y Do you accept criticism easily and without resentment?
Y You do? Are you a pansy-ass loser?
Y Do you bite your fingernails or chew the end of your pencil?
Y Do you gnaw through your lips and pull your hair out in bloody, matted
chunks? Y
Are there some things about yourself on which you are touchy?
Y
If someone were to touch your touchy things, would you like it?
Y It really all depends on the person, doesn't it?
Y And the touchy things too, probably, yes?
Y And probably also the quality of the touching, is it not so?
Y Do you ever get a single thought which hangs around for days?
Y How about the thought, "God, that was so stupid of me. Ive got to stop drinking." Y
How about the thought, "God, cheese is just so damn good." Y
Would you stop and find out whether a person needed help even though they had not directly asked you for it?
Y It depends on the person again, doesn't it?
Y Not much of a Kantian, are you?
Y Do you sometimes wonder if anyone really cares about you?
Y Do you sometimes wonder whether youre able to really care about anyone?
Y Do you think the answers to the previous two questions are interrelated in
important ways?
Y Is your facial expression varied rather than set?
Y Are you really vain enough to know?
Y Does a minor failure on your part rarely trouble you?
Y Does a major failure on your part rarely trouble you?
Y If you answered yes to the preceding two questions, would you be willing to share some of that Vicodin?
Y When met with direct opposition would you still seek to have your own way
rather than give in?
Y When met with a .357 magnum would you still be so obstinate?
Y Do you ever get disturbed by the noise of the wind or a "house settling down"?
Y
Are you a big wussy?
Y Are your decisions swayed by personal interests?
Y Are you self-righteously insistent that personal interests do not determine
your decisions?
Y Is it interesting to be self-righteous?
Y
Can you get quite enthusiastic over "some simple little thing"?
Y
Are you calling me simple?
Y
Do you get very ill at ease in disordered surroundings?
Y If I cleaned up, would you come over?
Y In subjects about which you are not expert, are your own ideas of sufficient importance as to tell others?
Y In whose opinion? Yours?
Y Can you accept defeat easily without the necessity of "swallowing your disappointment"?
Y
Do you swallow?
Y Do you work in "spurts," being relatively inactive and then furiously active for a day or two?
Y Isn't methamphetamine great?
Y Does the number of uncompleted jobs you have on hand bother you?
Y Does the number of hand jobs you have uncompleted bother you?
Y Would you make the necessary actions to kill an animal in order to put it out of pain?
Y Would you make the necessary actions to kill a human in order to put it out
of mind?
Y Is it easy for you to relax?
Y Is it relaxing for you to be easy?
Y Do you really think it is possible to learn anything from questionairres?
Y
