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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:51:11 UTC Ashwin Murali (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To have no purpose. To be mediocre and expendable.
- Where would you like to live?
- Switzerland with an apartment in New York for occasional visits.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To have knowledge at my beck and call. To be alone with the company of people I love close-by and sufficiently stocked in food, drink, cigarettes and entertainment.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Arrogance that is justified.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Great thinkers who acted. Those who were revered and feared all at once.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Socrates, Alexander, Newton, Einstein, Feynman, Gautama Buddha, Tagore
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Women who are fearless, intelligent and fun without trying to become men as they do so
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Jesse Bannon. Most fictional women do not fit my criterion.
- Your favorite painter?
- Maurits Cornelius Escher
- Your favorite musician?
- Jonny Greenwood
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence, fortitude, a stoic nature
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence, fearlessness, honesty
- Your favorite virtue?
- Honesty
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, dreaming, writing, theorizing.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- A mixture of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin's mind, Socrates attitude and Alexander's zeal
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A false sense of arrogance that shields a deep, insecure and very afraid individual
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Their ability to tolerate my idiosyncrasies without judgement
- What is your principle defect?
- Laziness, paranoia, fear of failure
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To not be where I want to be. I'd end my life.
- What would you like to be?
- A seeker of answers and great universal truths. A god of knowledge.
- What is your favorite color?
- Black. White. Red. Hard colors.
- What is your favorite flower?
- None.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The Eagle.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- PG Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Dawkins, Hawking, Guha, Frank Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut...
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Rudyard Kipling, Edward Lear
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Stephen Hawking. Grigori Perelman.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Agora.
- What are your favorite names?
- Ones that convey a deep meaning.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Same answer as Proust.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The one's who called themselves great and built monuments to themselves.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Alexander's defeat of the Persian Army. And the Battle of Thermopylae.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Will power, irresistible charm, good looks and a quick mind.
- How would you like to die?
- Never.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Same as Proust. Also irritation that I have become someone I despise.
- What is your motto?
- An unexamined life is not worth living - Socrates.
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