Proust Questionnaire: Abbie Hartley's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jan 16 19:47:50 UTC Abbie Hartley answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Not knowing your purpose or yourself
Where would you like to live?: The Wasatch Valley
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: That feeling of weighty contentment experienced when you're at home in the evening, having had just eaten dinner, there's a cup of tea and you're learning something or just thinking and wiling away the time, and it starts to snow.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My proclivity to daydream when it is not convenient for others for me to do so.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Any hero I can actually attempt to emulate. Those who long for simplicity, but so very often overcome adversity through courage and tenacity of will.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Robin Williams, Vincent VanGoch, Leonardo DaVinci, Louise Pastieur.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Malala Josefzai for her courage, her will to live, and her will to learn. With those three attributes you will succeed.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eowyn from the Lord of the Rings and Ophelia from Pans Labyrinth. Both face terrible odds, both triumph over those odds, and maintain their goodness throughout.
Your favorite painter?: It's a toss up between Van Goch and DaVinci
Your favorite musician?: Freddie Mercury.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Responsibility, Intelligence, Moral Fortitude without arrogance, and gentleness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Responsibility, Intelligence, Moral Fortitude without arrogance, and gentleness
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness, the type of kindness that allows you to be firm without being cruel; the type that moves you to better the world
Your favorite occupation?: It changes from day to day. Some days I'm happiest with my colors and books, other days I'll play my drum until I go deaf, and some days I will study all sorts of things on the internet.
Your most marked characteristic?: I attempt to be myself regardless of the company I keep. I'm not crass, but I am not necessarily conventional
What do you most value in your friends?: The willingness to be there through any kind of calamity.
What is your principle defect?: I'm one hell of a lazy bastard
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: The loss of my spouse who is lover, best friend, confidant, and the main reason I remember to laugh at myself
What would you like to be?: Proust said it best: Myself-as those whom I admire would like me to be.
What is your favorite color?: Proust got really pretentious on this one didn't he? My favorite color is Blue, particularly Cerulean.
What is your favorite flower?: Jasmine and Rose
What is your favorite bird?: The Goldfinch. They are a bird of good omen to me
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I'm not one much for poetry or prose. i suppose Shakespeare and Yeats
Who are your favorite poets?: Again, not much for poetry, but I like Longfellow
Who are your heroes in real life?: The vetrans who are my friends.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Malala Josefzai
What are your favorite names?: Rose, Ophelia, Olivia, Orion, Spencer
What is it you most dislike?: Hypocrisy in myself and in others
What historical figures do you most despise?: Proust never knew Hitler or Pol Pot or Donald Trump...
What event in military history do you most admire?: D-Day, but honestly the day that the world lays down its weapons and declares enough is enough will be the day I most admire. Obviously it hasn't happened.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A modicum of artistic talent
How would you like to die?: As happy as I am now, only after having been able to raise children to adulthood, and after having visited Ireland.
What is your present state of mind?: Boredom.
What is your motto?: Be kind to yourself; you're the only you you have

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