Proust Questionnaire: Anne Louise Sheldon's answers

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On Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:31:33 UTC Anne Louise Sheldon (34) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Dying alone
Where would you like to live?: near the mountains and a river (with a screened and lit gazebo near the house)
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a life with books and cats and chocolate and freshly baked bread
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: being somewhat of a know it all
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Robin Hood (although he might have been more than a legend)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Salah al-Din and Alexander Hamilton
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Elenore Roosevelt
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennett, Jo March, and Anne Shirley (Green Gables)
Your favorite painter?: Michael Whelan
Your favorite musician?: Itzahk Perlman
The quality you most admire in a man?: gentleness, moral and physical strength, and patience
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Non-cattiness, kindness, and patience
Your favorite virtue?: kindness (especially toward animals)
Your favorite occupation?: teasing my fiance, Tu, and walking in the mountains
Who would you have liked to be?: No matter who I could have been, that person would have had hardships, sorrows, fears; therefore, there is no reason to wish to be someone else. If I had to choose someone, I would wish to come back as one of my cats.
Your most marked characteristic?: Curiosity
What do you most value in your friends?: a desire to be around me :)
What is your principle defect?: impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to cause the death of the ones you love through betrayal
What would you like to be?: a librarian
What is your favorite color?: Red and green
What is your favorite flower?: yellow rose
What is your favorite bird?: all birds are a marvel; however, I'm afraid of all of them--they might peck my eyes out!
Who are your favorite prose writers?: too many to list
Who are your favorite poets?: T.S. Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: my parents; people who give up to help others in need. (They are better people than I.)
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elenore Roosevelt
What are your favorite names?: Heath and Tigana
What is it you most dislike?: cruelty to those who can't fight back
What historical figures do you most despise?: George Walker Bush and Cheney
What event in military history do you most admire?: couldn't say--I detest war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to play the violin beautifully
How would you like to die?: without feeling it happen or knowing it occurred
What is your present state of mind?: zoned out--I'm home after teaching middle schoolers all day
What is your motto?: Theodore Roosevelt's saying is great: over, under, through . . . but never around!

I'm an 8th grade English teacher who lives in Virginia, USA.

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