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On Sun, 29 Apr 18 23:24:03 UTC Blue (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Lonliness that comes from living among people but not engaged with them.
- Where would you like to live?
- Anywhere but this cold rock.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Living as my true self.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Obsession. I want to know who I am. Who I really am.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- The ones who smile at death and frown at victory; with victory comes boredom.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- The forefounders, of course: Marlow, Cairn, Attadar, Feresien, Singh, and Wythropp
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- My mother...whoever she was; and Yareli: Nobody is a better sister.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Can she outthink and outfight me? I like her.
- Your favorite painter?
- Really?
- Your favorite musician?
- Next.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Wisdom; restraint when he most wants to act; action when restraint would have been best. Me? I'm the act-first-and-regret-later-if-I-must kind of guy.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- She's good in her skin because she knows being a woman is more powerful than man any day, and yet, she doesn't act like a man to make her point. She doesn't have to.
- Your favorite virtue?
- There's a stratification system?
- Your favorite occupation?
- Ed-docs, definitely. A guy can't have too much education even if he's just a hydroponics farmer.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Glad someone finally asked! And now that you do, I'm not sure. Ask me later.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- I tend to act first because only action will get results.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Knowing and being known. Belonging.
- What is your principle defect?
- Obsession.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Going to war because of a broken communications emitter.
- What would you like to be?
- Someone who knows himself.
- What is your favorite color?
- Anything warm. Warm colors are life. Cool colors remind me of a morgue.
- What is your favorite flower?
- We don't have flowers here. I've seen them on an ed-doc, though. A rose? Maybe a lily. I like how they are both flowers but opposites.
- What is your favorite bird?
- I'll tell you when we get birds someday.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Huh?
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- In dire situations, when pushed to it, those who lay down their lives for others.
- What are your favorite names?
- How many more dumb questions do we have?
- What is it you most dislike?
- As though knowing that will make a difference.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The forefounders, of course: Marlow, Cairn, Attadar, Feresien, Singh, and Wythropp
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The day the world leaders sent the military into space.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Diplomacy. Please.
- How would you like to die?
- As I've lived: in motion.
- What is your present state of mind?
- You can't tell?
- What is your motto?
- Do Better; Be Better. That's the only thing I'll take from the forefounders.
These answers are, I hope obviously, those of a fictional character.
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