Proust Questionnaire: AAAKKK's answers

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On Mon, 14 Oct 13 03:58:02 UTC AAAKKK answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Severe depression
Where would you like to live?: A city with great food and culture or in nature
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To eat great food and drink good wine with someone I love, or to be alone with a bourbon and a novel
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Cruelty
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Philip Marlowe, Huckleberry Finn, Miss Lonelyhearts, Hobbes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Benjamin Franklin, Socrates, Hannibal, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who don't have to do good, but do.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eustacia Vye, Hester Prynne, Lizaveta Nikolaevna
Your favorite painter?: Goya
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humor, empathy, courage, the ability to adapt
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, occasional cruelty, humor, empathy, courage, the ability to adapt
Your favorite virtue?: The ability to adapt
Your favorite occupation?: Sex, reading, eating, listening to music, comedy
Who would you have liked to be?: Mark Twain or Benjamin Franklin
Your most marked characteristic?: Realism
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence, cruelty, humor, empathy, courage, the ability to adapt
What is your principle defect?: Cruelty
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Alzheimer's or something similar
What would you like to be?: Better than I am now
What is your favorite color?: Any color that occurs in nature
What is your favorite flower?: Forget-me-nots
What is your favorite bird?: Falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dostoevsky, Nabakov, Twain, West
Who are your favorite poets?: Dickinson, Byron, Hughes
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who don't have to do good, but do
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Harriet Tubman, Cleopatra
What are your favorite names?: No favorite names, just favorite people
What is it you most dislike?: Proud ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?: All tyrants and despots
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Normandy landings
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Musical genius
How would you like to die?: Satisfied
What is your present state of mind?: Content
What is your motto?: None

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