Proust Questionnaire: Alexandra's answers

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On Tue, 01 May 12 02:35:40 UTC Alexandra (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To forget what is truly beautiful.
Where would you like to live?: In a house with many bookshelves.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be able to drift in and out of life like a cat with those I love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Television, static static
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The girls who are able to disappear, the boys who act like John Wayne
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Some sort of strange hybrid of Natasya Fillipovna, Lux Lisbon, and Puck.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A man who can write a song or a novel who dresses well and lives a solitary life
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who live
Your favorite painter?: Schiele
Your favorite musician?: I cannot favor musicians over others
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, passion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A smoky voice, a sense of humor
Your favorite virtue?: The kind you must find yourself
Your favorite occupation?: Portrait drawing
Who would you have liked to be?: A fairy
Your most marked characteristic?: Being naturally magical, being observant
What do you most value in your friends?: Understanding, the ability to laugh
What is your principle defect?: Speaking over others, vanity
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never found outlets, to have never learned, to have never found him (he knows who he is)
What would you like to be?: A ghost
What is your favorite color?: Colors which change with the light
What is your favorite flower?: The kind that can grow inside another
What is your favorite bird?: The hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: This week, James Joyce
Who are your favorite poets?: Rimbaud, Bukowski, Delmore Schwartz
Who are your heroes in real life?: Currently, Joan Didion, always Patti Smith
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Chloe, Nico
What is it you most dislike?: My own self depreciation
What historical figures do you most despise?: I don't know enough of history
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't know enough of military history
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to draw well
How would you like to die?: Prepared and happy
What is your present state of mind?: Blissful
What is your motto?: This changes from day to day

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