Proust Questionnaire: Adam Hyde's answers

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On Sat, 22 May 10 16:08:19 +0000 Adam Hyde (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: loneliness, hopelessness
Where would you like to live?: Where friends are, in a city
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to live close to friends and those i love, while having the freedom to travel. To break free.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: fear, violence, laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Johnny mcqueen, Sherlock Holmes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lao Tzu, Homer, Alan Turing
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Elizabeth Hartley, Mihaela Precup
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Countess Ellen Olenska, Dona Isabel de Porcel
Your favorite painter?: Francois Boucher
Your favorite musician?: P J Harvey, Billie Holiday
The quality you most admire in a man?: humility, passion, strength
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength of mind, self confidence, gentleness
Your favorite virtue?: compassion in actions
Your favorite occupation?: writing, travelling, painting
Who would you have liked to be?: A musician
Your most marked characteristic?: a desire to escape
What do you most value in your friends?: humour, comfort, encouragement
What is your principle defect?: lack of intuition
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to die too soon or too late, to miss opportunities and never know better things
What would you like to be?: a friend to my friends and to strangers. A traveller, wise, confident, innocent
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: i don't have one
What is your favorite bird?: small ones
Who are your favorite prose writers?: charles Bukowski,
Who are your favorite poets?: E E Cummings, Auden, Blake
Who are your heroes in real life?: Orson Welles, Brancusi, Da Vinci,
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of arc, mary magdalene
What are your favorite names?: i don't have any
What is it you most dislike?: frailties of my still young body, the shortness of life and quickening of time, lack of resources to achieve what i want. Though i feel these limitations only spur me on moe fiercely.
What historical figures do you most despise?: conquerers, pillagers, Muhammed, Richard the Lionheart, Hitler, those who make ordinary lives into weapons and exploit those in need of support.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I admire those who fell in the Great War, i do not admire the event though.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: natural charm in social situations, seductive
How would you like to die?: with hope for the future. Around friends and loved ones, far away from relatives
What is your present state of mind?: boredom, tiredness.
What is your motto?: I don't like motto's, they inevitably fail.... so, doubt i suppose.

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