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On Sun, 16 Sep 12 21:47:58 UTC Akbar Shahzad (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To make oneself emotionally vulnerable, and be rejected.
- Where would you like to live?
- On the edge of a great wilderness.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- A wilderness, a woman, a number of animals, and access to art and science.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Fictionalization of the self.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Hamlet, Falstaff, Quixote, Sancho Panza, Yossarian, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Shakespeare, Cervantes, Mohammad, and Darwin.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Jane Goodall, Tilda Swinton, and Virginia Woolf.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- The objects of worship that are more than mere idols: Estella Havisham was the first and chief among them.
- Your favorite painter?
- Cezanne
- Your favorite musician?
- John Lennon
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence and vision
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence, ferocity and gentleness.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Courage.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Dreaming.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Shakespeare.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A craving to be recognized as extraordinary.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- The willingness to talk about anything without fear of rebuke.
- What is your principle defect?
- Grandiosity; a tendency to be pathetic.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To be illiterate.
- What would you like to be?
- A man of impossible prowess in all pursuits.
- What is your favorite color?
- What Proust said.
- What is your favorite flower?
- The orchid.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The crow.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- P.G. Wodehouse and James Joyce.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Yeats and the anonymous author of "Tom O' Bedlam"
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- David Attenborough, George Schaller, Werner Herzog
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Women that inspired great writing.
- What are your favorite names?
- Resonant ones.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Misplaced conviction.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The clergy.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- I do not like the military.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Genius and irresistible charm.
- How would you like to die?
- In an aesthetically pleasing manner; failing that, old and quiet and in my sleep
- What is your present state of mind?
- Irritation.
- What is your motto?
- If nothing else: bear witness. If possible: laugh. For bonus points: say something.
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