Proust Questionnaire: Alecksi's answers

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On Sun, 01 Aug 10 08:47:31 UTC Alecksi answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To grow old and alone without every accomplishing at least one of my goals in life.
Where would you like to live?: Inside my head.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have one of my novels published.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The fact that I take pride in my ego.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I prefer the antagonist to the protagonist.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: John F. Kennedy, Adolf Hitler, Mark Antony, Napoleon Bonaparte, Vlad Tepes, Countess Bathory, Robespierre.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother and grandmother, of course.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Any heroine who isn't afraid to show the wrath women can unleash.
Your favorite painter?: Andy Warhol.
Your favorite musician?: Till Lindemann.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence and strong opinions.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Common sense and quick wit.
Your favorite virtue?: Fortitude.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing, drawing, getting lost in my mind.
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to be any woman with power.
Your most marked characteristic?: My eccentricity.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, because without it, why be friends at all?
What is your principle defect?: I cannot think for myself.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have no talents at all.
What would you like to be?: I would like to be somebody who will be remembered.
What is your favorite color?: My taste in colors changes as often as the leaves change theirs.
What is your favorite flower?: The tiger lily.
What is your favorite bird?: The crow, respectively.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: To be honest with you, myself.
Who are your favorite poets?: Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My family and loved ones.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Hua Mulan.
What are your favorite names?: Vladimir, Dmitri, Evgeni, Ilya, Alexei, Alecksander, Anastasia, Andromeda.
What is it you most dislike?: Close-minded personalities.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Lee Harvey Oswald.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I have no knowledge concerning the military, at least, none I would like to share.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Wit.
How would you like to die?: Infamously.
What is your present state of mind?: Just the fact that I need to get to sleep soon.
What is your motto?: Why have a motto? I live in the moment.

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