Proust Questionnaire: Acrania's answers

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On Sun, 22 Jul 18 21:47:10 UTC Acrania (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have extracted from you the ability to think and dream.
Where would you like to live?: Within the shadow of my own contentment. That, or New York City.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To find love in every living thing and contentment in every transgression that may arise.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Self-deprecation and gluttony.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those of ordinary ability that achieve the extraordinary in great circumstance.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The brave plebeians that drive revolution and evolution of human society.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those that strive tenaciously to their goals while continuing to sport a smile upon their faces.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Same as for heroes but without the wasp of masculinity that trails bravery.
Your favorite painter?: Escher (artist but w/e)
Your favorite musician?: John Coltrane
The quality you most admire in a man?: Openness and humour
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Boldness and confidence
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion (within which all other virtues lie- to a degree)
Your favorite occupation?: Getting lost (in life and in dreams)
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone who truly and utterly accepts and loves themselves (or Jane Goodall).
Your most marked characteristic?: At the best of times, my enthusiasm and wit; at the worst of times, my acrimoniousness and melancholy.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness,intelligence, and humour.
What is your principle defect?: Self deprecation
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never known and experienced love.
What would you like to be?: My own best friend but also a friend to all.
What is your favorite color?: The pretty one.
What is your favorite flower?: Indian paintbrush- but they're all lovely.
What is your favorite bird?: African Grey parrot.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Albert Camus, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison and of course, Shakespeare
Who are your favorite poets?: Rabindranath Tagore, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson
Who are your heroes in real life?: Jane Goodall, Nelson Mandela, Noam Chomsky, Sitting Bull
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Andal, Hatshepsut, Dolores Huerta
What are your favorite names?: Those that perfectly suit the person.
What is it you most dislike?: Hate.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those that abuse power beyond measure.
What event in military history do you most admire?: D-day.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Telekinesis...though I suppose that's not natural. Let's go for discipline.
How would you like to die?: Happy.
What is your present state of mind?: Hurumph.
What is your motto?: Always critique normalcy.

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