Proust Questionnaire: Benjamin Urrutia's answers

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On Wed, 22 Jun 11 21:25:25 UTC Benjamin Urrutia (61) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Illness that causes you pain but does not kill you.
Where would you like to live?: San Luis Obispo
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Mozart
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Those of little children
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Sam Gamgee, Ron Weasley, and Hiccup
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great, Jesus, the Poetess Rabi'a
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Ursula Le Guin, Gracia Fay Ellwood, Rabi'a
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Galadriel, Hermione Granger, Sweetheart
Your favorite painter?: Caravaggio
Your favorite musician?: Mozart!!!!!!!
The quality you most admire in a man?: Generosity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The ability and willingness to listen
Your favorite virtue?: Charity
Your favorite occupation?: Reading and writing while listening to Mozart
Who would you have liked to be?: My true self, as I was meant by God to be.
Your most marked characteristic?: Bad one: Self-righteousness. Good one; Willingness to learn.
What do you most value in your friends?: Generosity
What is your principle defect?: Self-righteousness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Oy, don't ask.
What would you like to be?: My true self.
What is your favorite color?: Peacock Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: The White Rose.
What is your favorite bird?: The Emperor Penguin.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Isaac Asimov, Mary Renault, Hugh Nibley, Paula Fredriksen
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickinson, Gabriele D'Annunzio, C.S. Lewis
Who are your heroes in real life?: Gracia Fay Ellwood
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Rabi'a
What are your favorite names?: Names in Tokien and in J.K. Rowling
What is it you most dislike?: The inability to listen
What historical figures do you most despise?: The Crusaders at their most murderous and genocidal.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Alexander's peaceful conquest of Egypt, the Israeli victory in 1967.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to make money, lots of it.
How would you like to die?: While praying, as Dr. Livingstone did.
What is your present state of mind?: Pleased at thinking about myself to answer these questions.
What is your motto?: "At last, a good plan!"

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