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On Fri, 21 May 10 16:42:42 +0000 L. Kadey (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Apathy
- Where would you like to live?
- A place that has all four distinct seasons.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- A mixture of constancy and novelty
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Laziness, deception, casually breaking my word, presenting a false and inflated image of myself
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Puck, Kipling's cat, Alyosha Karamazov, Zooey Glass
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Caligula, Robert Hooke
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Hannah Arendt, Sady Doyle
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Franny Glass, Artemis, Valancy Stirling, Yael
- Your favorite painter?
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Your favorite musician?
- John Darnielle
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Complexity
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Unapologetic self-confidence
- Your favorite virtue?
- Being able to check one's privilege
- Your favorite occupation?
- Wasting time
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Myself, but with more ambition
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Carelessness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- It varies.
- What is your principle defect?
- Shallowness of emotion
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Illiteracy
- What would you like to be?
- Braver.
- What is your favorite color?
- N/A.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Hogweed.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The common loon.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Camus
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Philip Levine, Richard Brautigan, Shakespeare, Qoheleth
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Morgan Tsvangirai
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Hester Stanhope
- What are your favorite names?
- Ezra, Enoch
- What is it you most dislike?
- Myself
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- I don't know.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The Nuremberg Trials
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Humility.
- How would you like to die?
- As painlessly as possible.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Mild frustration.
- What is your motto?
- Never look back, walk tall, act fine.
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