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On Sun, 15 Jan 12 00:47:07 UTC BlondShamrock (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Feeling you've failed everyone, and them feeling the same.
- Where would you like to live?
- Somewhere people are honest without the intent of an honest remark being funny.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To love and be loved, to never forget anyone, to always find the outside world beautiful, to find peace in music, to write something I am proud of and is completed, to be near my favourite restaurant, and for there to always be a breeze.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- To being unhappy with myself and not doing a thing about it when I am perfectly capable.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those that are more developed by a fan than on any other official media. Go fanfiction!
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Elizabeth I, Aristotle, JRR Tolkien, Anne Boleyn.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- My beautiful sister, my Nanny, wonderful Carmen, the glorious beams of light that shed sight on a world that hadn't known the difference between night and day before dawn broke.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Lexie Anderson, Hermione Granger, Annabeth Chase, and many...many...more.
- Your favorite painter?
- My Grandad.
- Your favorite musician?
- I am in awe of many musicians, and I can't think of even one musician that can't be topped by another as they continue to crop into the forefront of my mind. Geez, what a loaded question!
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Good humour, moral sense (copied), intelligence (again, copied), not being utterly clueless all the time. seriously.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- genuineness, ingenuity, optimism,intelligence, wisdom, and definitely open-mindedness.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Yep, pretty much all of them. They're all good right? So shouldn't we all aspire to have them?
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, laughing, thinking, and finding beauty in the simple things.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I'd have liked to be many different people, but I understand that they had qualities that I want to see in myself, so I should simply try to be a better person so that I may become the best of who they are, so I'm not them, and in consequence I am myself.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My own most marked characteristic? The need to be remembered and never forgotten. Others most marked characteristic of me? Becoming obsessed with things others would never be infatuated with. Ever.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Open-mindedness and honesty, and true acceptance.
- What is your principle defect?
- Oh my goodness- procrastination! Ask anyone! But mostly for me it's my worrying mental calmness that deals with things literally as they come, to an extent that I'm not even sure that I reacted.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have lived with regrets that could have been resolved and finding in myself, because of that, unhappiness. And also to have never known love.
- What would you like to be?
- A better version of myself that has things more under control, and a general sense of where life is taking me, because at the moment I've no effing clue.
- What is your favorite color?
- Colours alone are great, but unless there was more than one, then they wouldn't even be called colours, because there wouldn't be any need to differentiate-life would be dull. So, colours together, because there's a reason it's somewhere over the rainbow.
- What is your favorite flower?
- They're all pretty spectacular, but a familial favourite is poppies, a mythological one is wolfsbane, and a fictional one is Mimbulus Mimbletonia.
- What is your favorite bird?
- A crow. The pretty ones that are black sleek, with a pretty beak and not scary feet. They're gorgeous.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- I wish I knew...
- Who are your favorite poets?
- W.H. Auden, myself (though I can't find them ANYWHERE), and whoever wrote that Irish Blessing on the back on my Nanny's locket.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My Nanny, my sister (Sshhh! Don't tell her!), most of my teachers, my parents. Mostly my Nanny and Grandad.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Elizabeth I.
- What are your favorite names?
- Names that I've unintentionally come up with, that my friends adopt for me.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Closed-mindedness. Refusal of attempting to understand. Seeing bad qualities in other people and hating them more, knowing that I have them too.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler, and all others who have sought to cause any harm to an innocent-or not-life.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- I admire many things, but war is not one of them, so I cannot admire the military for all the good it has done and all the imbalance it has caused.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- How about the gift for that to be made possible?
- How would you like to die?
- Knowing I left a mark on the world in some way.
- What is your present state of mind?
- I'm tired and hungry, though my mental capacity seems broadened.
- What is your motto?
- I'm so hungry I can't think. Feed me computer, FEED ME!
I really am hungry. This took forever.
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