Proust Questionnaire: Alejandro Amoretti's answers

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On Fri, 09 Nov 12 19:45:26 UTC Alejandro Amoretti (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being not madly in love with anything
Where would you like to live?: In a[n at least seemingly infinite] library
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Striving without thinking about striving
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Indolence, overconsciousness, cleverness, fear
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Homer's Diomedes, Chaucer's Troilus, Lermontov's Pechorin, Dickens' Sydney Carton, Calvino's me
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Kant, Nietzsche, David Bowie, DFW
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, most old ladies, most women in Colombia
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Chaucer's Criseyde, Dostoevsky's Sonya Semyonovna, Vonnegut's Circe Berman
Your favorite painter?: Clyfford Still
Your favorite musician?: Efrim Menuck
The quality you most admire in a man?: Insanity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Toss up between eyes and breasts
Your favorite virtue?: Will
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, when I'm in it
Who would you have liked to be?: A better football player
Your most marked characteristic?: Deltoids
What do you most value in your friends?: The indestructibility of their characters, their indefatigable humor
What is your principle defect?: Slowness of brain
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never be loved madly by a beautiful woman whom I madly love
What would you like to be?: A man who has written something that has meant the world to somebody
What is your favorite color?: Blue (though lately it's been darkening to black)
What is your favorite flower?: I can't visualize it without it being in front of me
What is your favorite bird?: Nightingale (only because of Keats)
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dostoevsky, Mann, Borges, Bolaños, DFW, Eugenides
Who are your favorite poets?: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Eliot, Rilke, Jon Davis, myself
Who are your heroes in real life?: DFW, Christopher Nolan, Trey Stone and Matt Parker
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Forough Farrokhzad
What are your favorite names?: Right now, Tchoupitoulas and Samantha
What is it you most dislike?: The feeling of losing the heartbeat of a story or poem during its composition
What historical figures do you most despise?: Most of them
What event in military history do you most admire?: I'm really only familiar with the military events fictionalized in Tolstoy. I admired how Kutuzov kicked Napolean's ass
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Photographic memory
How would you like to die?: After sex or while reading "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
What is your present state of mind?: Stimulated by coffee and a bit scattered but free from depression
What is your motto?: Get your shit together

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