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On Thu, 20 Apr 17 22:53:49 UTC Agape (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- The death of my child
- Where would you like to live?
- In a civilized place, where respect is had for every human being, regardless of sex, gender, of race.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Earthly happiness begins when the desire for happiness for one's own self fades, replaced with the want of happiness for all who inhabit the earth.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Depriving myself of the life I should have lived, and mimicking that example to my children.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Arete of Cyrene, and any other enlightened female thinkers
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Arete of Cyrene, Socrates, Sappho, Laskarina Bouboulina,
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- The women of this little island who have chosen to live life as theirs, and not as others want
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Hua Mulan, a fierce woman whose decision to enter into battle were based on love and loyalty to her family
- Your favorite painter?
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Your favorite musician?
- Old man Kostas who sits at the tavern every saturday night with his bouzouki
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Honor
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Honor
- Your favorite virtue?
- The virtues that allow a person to realize the self
- Your favorite occupation?
- Escaping into my books
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I would have liked to figure this out, instead of having my future pre-arranged by the traditions surrounding my faith and my culture
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My unrelenting love for my children
- What do you most value in your friends?
- The ear they lend to me
- What is your principle defect?
- My reliance on the men in my life, either by the misfortune of having those men assigned to me, or by own self loathing
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To not have lived my life as it should have been lived
- What would you like to be?
- A great thinker
- What is your favorite color?
- The olive of the trees that surround me
- What is your favorite flower?
- The poppy that blooms in spring
- What is your favorite bird?
- The barn owl, that screeches at night in search of her young
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Konstatine Kavafi
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- The women of this island
- What are your favorite names?
- The name I call out in my sleep every night, as she will now only respond to me in my dreams
- What is it you most dislike?
- the small minded patriarchal society in which I live
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- All of Bouboulina's efforts during the Greek War of Independence
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The gift of courage to be who God intended e to be
- How would you like to die?
- With all my children alive and laying flowers at my grave
- What is your present state of mind?
- My mind is in a terrible state
- What is your motto?
- There is no motto
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