Proust Questionnaire: Ailene's answers

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On Tue, 18 Nov 14 22:24:12 UTC Ailene answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

Your most marked characteristic?: Mystery. The fact that no one ever knows what I'm thinking but they flatter themselves with acting like they know how I feel.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty. Straightforwardness. A sense of humor.
What is your principle defect?: Being out in left-field at moments it's not needed.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never love, and not be loved in return.
What would you like to be?: Someone I can be proud of enough to love myself at age 60, and then spiral sideways into the coffin as in- 'wow! what a ride!'
What is your favorite color?: Anything that makes me marvel at it. For example, I love the beautiful colors of sunrise, but I am more of a sunset/twilight person per se. I love color but I am more of a blue/violet color myself.
What is your favorite flower?: Anything different from what I usually see.
What is your favorite bird?: Phoenix.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Prose? I know that I love Shakespeare. It's rare that a 'favorite' author of mine would date back to anything in a strictly 'prose' era.
Who are your favorite poets?: Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, even Bob Dylan.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Winston Churchill.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor of Aquitaine.
What are your favorite names?: Whatever I would like to be called myself, and that's IF anyone would rise to that occasion.
What is it you most dislike?: Envy. Dishonesty. Low-class behavior.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Custer, Hitler, Andrew Jackson.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Any kind where soldiers fought for the freedom to live as we do now. I know it's not much, but can you imagine there being a Berlin Wall everywhere you look? Figuratively or not?
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: As opposed to artificial gifts? I would just like to not overthink things. To be spontaneous without regretting what I say afterword, or thinking too hard over a question...
How would you like to die?: I said this earlier (inspired by an Irish poem) - to stumble into my grave, all tired and breathless, but with my eyes shining as I exclaim in one sentence how much of a ride my life has been.
What is your present state of mind?: I'm looking forward to more questions like these! But I see that there is just one left.
What is your motto?: Never Miss Hanukkah? No, how about- there are two paths that you can go by, but in the long run- there's still time to change the road you're on.

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