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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:02:12 UTC Pistol Pete answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
depression
Where would you like to live?
Among friends and family
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being with friends and family and everyone getting along
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Hubris
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, Atticus Finch, Ma Joad
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Dwight Eisenhower
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Good mothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Ma Joad, Desdemona, Cordelia
Your favorite painter?
Rembrandt
Your favorite musician?
Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?
decency
The quality you most admire in a woman?
decency
Your favorite virtue?
authenticity
Your favorite occupation?
writing
Who would you have liked to be?
a novelist
Your most marked characteristic?
analyticalness
What do you most value in your friends?
loyalty
What is your principle defect?
judgmentalness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
losing a child
What would you like to be?
authentic
What is your favorite color?
sky blue
What is your favorite flower?
orchid
What is your favorite bird?
cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Steinbeck, Harper Lee
Who are your favorite poets?
Shakespeare, Dickenson, Keats, Yeats
Who are your heroes in real life?
John Walsh
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Meip Geis, Ann Frank, Emily Dickenson
What are your favorite names?
Christopher, Michael, Jennifer
What is it you most dislike?
pretense, hypocrisy
What historical figures do you most despise?
Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Che
What event in military history do you most admire?
D Day, VE Day, VJ Day, Appotamox
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
singing voice like Pavarotti
How would you like to die?
peacefully, surrounded by friends and family
What is your present state of mind?
anxious
What is your motto?
do what you fear

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