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On Mon, 29 Feb 16 22:34:25 UTC Brian (37) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Homelessness
- Where would you like to live?
- NYC, where I already live.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Reading on a comfortable couch with my wife next to me.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Obsession with details, obsession with collecting certain things
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Tough, worldly people who still (sometimes against their will) remain compassionate.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Those who brought about positive change, plus the geniuses in various fields.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Intelligent, talented, efficient women who are excellent at what they do.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Tough, worldly people who still (sometimes against their will) remain compassionate.
- Your favorite painter?
- Magritte
- Your favorite musician?
- Nick Cave
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Sense of humor
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Sense of humor
- Your favorite virtue?
- Kindness
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading
- Who would you have liked to be?
- A Surrealist in the time of the original Surrealism movement.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Obsessiveness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Kindness
- What is your principle defect?
- A short temper.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Being homeless or blind or both.
- What would you like to be?
- An author.
- What is your favorite color?
- Blue
- What is your favorite flower?
- Lilacs
- What is your favorite bird?
- Hawk
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Cormac McCarthy, Nicholson Baker, Andrew Vachss, Stephen King
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Yosef Komunyakaa, e.e. cummings, Yeats, Auden
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Andrew Vachss, people fighting for equality
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Jane Austen, Alice Vachss
- What are your favorite names?
- Brian, or simply my last name
- What is it you most dislike?
- Tardiness and egotism
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Racists, bigots, bullies, those who would impede others' life decisions and growth
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Freeing of the prisoners in WWII concentration camps
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Patience
- How would you like to die?
- Quietly, peacefully, many years from now.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Trepidation about events soon to come.
- What is your motto?
- Treat others with respect and be places on time, always.
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