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On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:10:08 UTC AROG answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To define myself by my occupation.
Where would you like to live?
In country where nature flourishes and large cities with culture are a 2 hour drive away.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To wake each morning healthy, strong and inspired.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
To a life where my creativity becomes stifled.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Peter Pan.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Mother Theresa, Allen Ginsburg, Daniel Boone, The Donner Pass group, Joseph Beauys, Marcel Duchamp
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
An elegant lady with manners and breadth of designing herself.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Josephine, Margaret, Elizabeth and Amy in Little Women.
Your favorite painter?
Julio Galan.
Your favorite musician?
Patricia Lee Smith.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Refined manners with a sense of duty to follow his calling.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Refined attributes, intelligence with a sense for the playful.
Your favorite virtue?
Universal virtues not defined by religion, trends, and tawdry magazines { Esquire, Star all the ones at supermarket checkout stands }.
Your favorite occupation?
Photographing what catches my eye, reading, watching Walt Disney films.
Who would you have liked to be?
Shakespeare.
Your most marked characteristic?
Tissue hunger, gentle tendencies, dreaming.
What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty, integrity and social charms.
What is your principle defect?
Naivete, a lack of promoting my work.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Never to have hhad a mother and father.
What would you like to be?
No one but myself, Im quite happy with this.
What is your favorite color?
The spectrum of the rainbow.
What is your favorite flower?
Roses
What is your favorite bird?
The crow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Bob Dylan.
Who are your favorite poets?
J.N.A. Rimbaud and Haiku.
Who are your heroes in real life?
Myself and some friends.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
The Queen of Sheba.
What are your favorite names?
Cody, Myles, Celeste, Shahzia, Delvin, Messai.
What is it you most dislike?
My many flaws.
What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?
Picasso's painting of "Guernica".
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
To see myself as my family does.
How would you like to die?
In a bubble that floats through the forest and bursting into a Redwood tree.
What is your present state of mind?
Discomfort.
What is your motto?
The only nation is the Imagination.

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