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On Sun, 16 Sep 12 22:44:11 UTC A Half Empty Beaker answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

Where would you like to live?: In a villa on an Umbrian hilltop
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: The sun and a good book
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: A capacity for excess in victuals
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Tom Ripley, Julian Morrow
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Nero, Julius Caesar, Cicero. Franco and Salazar.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman not ashamed to stick to nature and tradition.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Camilla Macauley
Your favorite painter?: Caravaggio
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Friendliness and intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and eccentricity
Your favorite virtue?: Admitting when one is wrong
Your favorite occupation?: Translating non sensical Greek and Latin grammatical exercises
Who would you have liked to be?: Tiro, Cicero's slave.
Your most marked characteristic?: Intelligence
What do you most value in your friends?: Ability to discourse
What is your principle defect?: Arrogance
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have remain unintroduced to the classics
What would you like to be?: A Wealthy Scholar, not unattactive to womenfolk, and with an expansive mind for trivia.
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Lavender.
What is your favorite bird?: The Robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Donna Tartt, Patricia Highsmith, Caesar.
Who are your favorite poets?: Juvenal, Byron, Lord Macauley
Who are your heroes in real life?: None
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Livia
What are your favorite names?: Laurence, Camilla and Lily.
What is it you most dislike?: Myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Anyone left wing, anyone barbaric, anyone from 500 - 1800 AD excluding the renaissance.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The defeat of the Persians at Marathon
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Beauty and charm
How would you like to die?: In a blaze of glory,
What is your present state of mind?: Sleepy.
What is your motto?: Do people have mottoes?

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