Proust Questionnaire: Bennie's answers

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On Tue, 23 Jun 15 18:47:50 UTC Bennie (55) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: betrayal by a friend
Where would you like to live?: Where my granddaughter lives.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being in nature with people who love me.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who deal with great loss and pain, working with what they have.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Harriet Tubman
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: What Proust said
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity and humour
The quality you most admire in a woman?: kindness and humour
Your favorite virtue?: kindness
Your favorite occupation?: writing, dreaming, paddling
Who would you have liked to be?: Anna Porter who is a writer, a publisher, a grandmother, a wife, and a beautiful person
Your most marked characteristic?: What Proust said.
What do you most value in your friends?: Affection, support, adventure, humour.
What is your principle defect?: Inconsistency of effort.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live in the suburbs.
What would you like to be?: Free to do as I like without restriction of money or health.
What is your favorite color?: blue or yellow
What is your favorite flower?: white rose
What is your favorite bird?: tern
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Ann-Marie MacDonald, Margaret Atwood, Carole Shields
Who are your favorite poets?: Simon Armitage
Who are your heroes in real life?: Drew and Nick Bartram
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hariette Tubman
What are your favorite names?: Laura and Leah
What is it you most dislike?: My shortcomings
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler and those who followed him in propogating genocide.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Perfect Pitch.
How would you like to die?: Very old and very healthy and very happy,
What is your present state of mind?: Meditative.
What is your motto?: To think own self be true, for it follows as the day the night, thou canst then be false to any man.

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