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On Thu, 22 Jul 10 17:57:47 UTC Amy (33) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be lonely
- Where would you like to live?
- On my own ranch, self-sufficient, enough land to live on
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To have music, the love of human beings, humor, and good food
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Inability to dance
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- David Copperfield, Sydney Carton, Mr. Rochester, Captain Wentworth, John Proctor
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Elizabeth I, John Paul Jones, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Robert Burns, Grace O'Malley
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Boadicea, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Dickinson
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Jane Eyre, Morgan le Fey, Anne Elliott, and the sisters from the Poisonwood Bible
- Your favorite painter?
- John Waterhouse
- Your favorite musician?
- Beethoven
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- a sense of self, kindness, humor, courage
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- humor, strength, intuition, kindness
- Your favorite virtue?
- Acceptance of others
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, writing, cross-stitching, cooking
- Who would you have liked to be?
- myself.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Independence
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Sense of humor
- What is your principle defect?
- inability to express my feelings
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- to be deaf
- What would you like to be?
- Myself, but healthier
- What is your favorite color?
- Red
- What is your favorite flower?
- Any flower that smells good and is beautiful.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The Canadian goose
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Monk Kidd
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Bob Dylan, my parents and grandparents
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- What are your favorite names?
- old-fashioned names, especially Irish/Scottish
- What is it you most dislike?
- Foods I hate
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler. Andrew Jackson. George W. Bush.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Agincourt
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- willpower
- How would you like to die?
- Asleep.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Exhaustion
- What is your motto?
- I wish it were carpe diem, but I don't have a motto.
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