Proust Questionnaire: Ardent's answers

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On Tue, 20 Aug 13 06:52:43 UTC Ardent (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Boredom and failure
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere temperate
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To reach the highest heights of success
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Underdogs and rebels
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those who triumph against all odds
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women of conviction and strength
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: A woman who is of her own mind
Your favorite painter?: HR Giger
Your favorite musician?: Tom Waits
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty, and a perseverance of self
Your favorite occupation?: playing games, watching movies, making both
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself but wealthier
Your most marked characteristic?: My casual aire and my tolerance for everything
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty and knowing when to leave me be
What is your principle defect?: My mind never works as fast as I want it to, laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my father before I am ready
What would you like to be?: Myself but wealthier
What is your favorite color?: All colors at once
What is your favorite flower?: Orchids and Tulips
What is your favorite bird?: Owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Mervyn Peake, Jerzy Kosinski
Who are your favorite poets?: Keats
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father, anyone who puts their life on the line for their beliefs
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jean D'Arc
What are your favorite names?: Malcolm, Audrey
What is it you most dislike?: Willful ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?: I despise none
What event in military history do you most admire?: Christmas Truce WW1
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Photographic memory
How would you like to die?: Falling from a plane
What is your present state of mind?: Whimsical but anxious
What is your motto?: There's no kill like overkill.

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