Proust Questionnaire: Allison Jean's answers

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On Mon, 09 Aug 10 20:43:35 UTC Allison Jean (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be in the complete control of someone who despises me
Where would you like to live?: Brauron, Greece (outside of Athens)
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in a house by the ocean, with family and friends around me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Insecurities about one's intelligence and physical appearance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hector, Aeneas, Achilles, Jay Gatsby
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Themistocles, Alexander the Great, Augustus
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother and Adele Scafuro, both women of outstanding intellect and character
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Andromache, Dido, Tess Durbeyfield, Jane Eyre
Your favorite painter?: Gustav Klimt
Your favorite musician?: Purcell
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, bravery
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, understanding, endurance
Your favorite virtue?: Endurance at every level
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming, writing, watching movies, translating Greek and Latin
Who would you have liked to be?: A great general or leader, preferably Themistocles or Patton.
Your most marked characteristic?: My intelligence and my need to be perceived as intelligent, fortunately and unfortunately.
What do you most value in your friends?: Understanding and love
What is your principle defect?: Lack of self-confidence
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never have read Greek literature or history
What would you like to be?: a teacher of beauty
What is your favorite color?: Green on certain days; yellow on others.
What is your favorite flower?: Bleeding hearts
What is your favorite bird?: The nightingale
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Charlotte Bronte and Jeffrey Eugenides
Who are your favorite poets?: John Keats and Sylvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father and brother, and Charles Fornara, the most wonderful professor
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Neiara (Pericles' mistress), Livia (wife of Augustus)
What are your favorite names?: Adele and Castor
What is it you most dislike?: Apathy
What historical figures do you most despise?: The Phocians, who melted down the treasures of Delphi during one of the Sacred Wars
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To be able to sing
How would you like to die?: Quietly, in bed, surrounded by loved ones
What is your present state of mind?: Calm
What is your motto?: Live to achieve

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