Proust Questionnaire: Kid Jasper's answers

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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:33:23 UTC Kid Jasper answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to lose any member of my family
Where would you like to live?: a place as comfortable as Westchester and as affordable as Louisiana
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to live with those I love, have enough resources to provide them with a comfortable life and to have the NY Post delivered each day
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: procrastination, inertia
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy, Sherlock Holmes, Hercules
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Teddy Roosevelt, Chesty Puller, Ronald Reagan
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Any woman that could live with me for more than 17 years
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: none
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: J. P. Souza
The quality you most admire in a man?: Leadership
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humor
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Making my wife smile
Who would you have liked to be?: Marine Corps Fighter Pilot
Your most marked characteristic?: a pursuit of curiosity to the detriment of productivity
What do you most value in your friends?: honesty
What is your principle defect?: lack of will power
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to lose a family member
What would you like to be?: I have already been most of what I would like to be
What is your favorite color?: all the colors of spring flowers
What is your favorite flower?: impatiens
What is your favorite bird?: eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Patrick O'Brian, Graham Greene, John Cheevers, William Langewiesche
Who are your favorite poets?: Longfellow, Poe, Kipling
Who are your heroes in real life?: 343 members of FDNY who died 9/11/2001, A. Lincoln, G. H. W. Bush
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: F. Nightengale,
What are your favorite names?: BARBARA, DONNA, REGINA, TARA, ANGELA, LEYA, DANIELLA,
What is it you most dislike?: deception
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Pol Pot, Charles Manson
What event in military history do you most admire?: Guaducanal victory in WWII
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: intellegence, assertiveness
How would you like to die?: in a state of sinlessness
What is your present state of mind?: having put myself in this position when I should be doing the laundry
What is your motto?: don't sit if you can stand, don't stand if you can walk, don't walk if you can run

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