Proust Questionnaire: Brad's answers

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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:07:37 UTC Brad (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be deprived of a personal choice in my misery
Where would you like to live?: Paris or Prague, for the adventurer in me, and Minnesota for memories and family
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: I wouldn't begin to define it, as that might crumble it - definitions constrain some creativity
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My love of solitude, though most find it unnatural
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The characters from all levels of society in Anton Chekhov's short stories
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Mozart, Beethoven, Chekhov, Proust, Thoreau
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, the idealized women of my hopes
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Emma Bovary, Elizabeth Bennett
Your favorite painter?: Vincent van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Mozart, Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Gentleness, Determination, Loyalty, Humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, Confidance, Integrity, Kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Unconditional love, Self-Knowledge
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, Thinking, Going over memories
Who would you have liked to be?: Chekhov, the most humane of all writers in real life and on the page
Your most marked characteristic?: A desire to be optimistic in all
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness
What is your principle defect?: Lack of self-determination
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never having tried to understand those closest to me, including myself
What would you like to be?: A writer, and my epithet would be "He was humane in his writing" - that is the greatest praise
What is your favorite color?: Blue, or its exact opposite, the color and atmosphere of a lightly snowing day
What is your favorite flower?: Rather than a flower, I prefer the sturdiness and shade of trees - they have the feel of centuries on them
What is your favorite bird?: The skylark
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Proust, Chekhov, Hugo, Nabokov
Who are your favorite poets?: Keats, Shelley, Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father at times, but primarilly my heroes exist as spirits now - also the producer of Barrie's "Peter Pan," who refused a lifeboat on the Titanic quoting Peter, "Death would be a marvellous adventure"
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Audrey Hepburn
What are your favorite names?: A name is only a way of trying to own something, but I am quite partial to my own
What is it you most dislike?: A person's utter disregard of the culture and arts of the past; my own wishy-washyness - I find opposing viewpoints on everything, so I am very open, but also too overanalytical
What historical figures do you most despise?: Ultimately, the history books put in only the worst - so many have been neglected that I cannot pick; besides, to hate dead figures is a waste of time
What event in military history do you most admire?: Any justified revolution
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to play the piano and feel the most living of the arts coursing through my fingers
How would you like to die?: At the moment of my greatest happiness and ecstasy
What is your present state of mind?: Reflective due to the questions (especially this one, which calls for such a snotty response) and relaxed - I'm listening to Beethoven's Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13 after finishing all of my homework
What is your motto?: "Do not regret having built castles in the air; that is where they should be, now build the foundations under them." - Thoreau, & "Nothing is good or bad until thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare

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