Proust Questionnaire: Blaine's answers

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On Wed, 16 Jun 10 08:46:11 UTC Blaine (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be ignored by those with whom I feel the need to speak.
Where would you like to live?: Eventually? Estonia, or perhaps Vermont. For the moment, being en route suits me best.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Having the means to pursue any endeavor that I feel may bring me towards the Great Mysterious.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: A neurotic obsession with stagnation.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Sherlock Holmes, Ka (Snow, Orhan Pamuk), Siddhartha.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Michel Foucault
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Pauline Billingsley, Sophia Lloyd
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Obatala? I feel so sexist, I can't come up with anything better.
Your favorite painter?: Josef Albers, Franz Kline
Your favorite musician?: David Feurzeig, Nico Muhly
The quality you most admire in a man?: Refined craft. Queerness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Refined craft. Queerness.
Your favorite virtue?: A suspicion of virtues.
Your favorite occupation?: Raconteur.
Who would you have liked to be?: Foucault. Or, Nico Muhly.
Your most marked characteristic?: An acceptance of my own, as well as other’s, inherent multiplicities and discontinuities.
What do you most value in your friends?: An allowance of my moments of eccentrcity.
What is your principle defect?: My unerring need to make my point to the point of being abrasive.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Loss of memory: experiential, episodic, digital, or otherwise.
What would you like to be?: A composer.
What is your favorite color?: Yellow. Or Purple. Definitely not red.
What is your favorite flower?: Pansies.
What is your favorite bird?: Mockingbird.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Milan Kundera, David Foster Wallace
Who are your favorite poets?: Christian Morgenstern, Robert Louis Stevenson
Who are your heroes in real life?: David Feurzeig, Victor Tillman (?)
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Judith Butler, Dolly Parton.
What are your favorite names?: The depricatory ones.
What is it you most dislike?: Grand silence caused by judgement.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Cheney Piñata.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I suppose I don’t particularly admire any event in military history.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The gift to create from nothing.
How would you like to die?: Unbeknownst.
What is your present state of mind?: Contemplative, romantic, and exhausted.
What is your motto?: quelque chose dans le français.

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