Proust for skedaddlers

It would take more than a ten-hour flight to Hawaii to get me started on Proust, the French writer best known for his humongous work, A la recherche du temps perdu.

But thanks to Simone Howell at Inside a dog, I've found a way to invoke Proust, while skedaddling out of the country, and without actually committing to reading the seven-volume translation.

She put me on to the Proust Questionaire, which was devised by young Marcel at the age of twenty, as a means of revealing one's innermost...