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On Fri, 03 Feb 12 22:22:13 UTC Caidy (54) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To live in despair of the past
Where would you like to live?
Co. Clare, Ireland
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be forgiven and to forgive completely every day
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Living without comedy
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Job,Book of Job, Bible; Conor Larkin, Trinity; The Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Hildegard of Bingen, St. Brigid, Calamity Jane, Bernadette Devlin, Michael Collins, Tom Barry, John Adams
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Maya Angelou, Most mothers, Children with disabilities
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Scout, To Kill a Mockingbird
Your favorite painter?
Caravaggio
Your favorite musician?
Bruce Hornsby
The quality you most admire in a man?
Quiet intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Noisy wit
Your favorite virtue?
Faith
Your favorite occupation?
Horse Whisperer
Who would you have liked to be?
Kitty Kiernan
Your most marked characteristic?
Survival instinct
What do you most value in your friends?
forgiveness
What is your principle defect?
inconsistency
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
losing my children
What would you like to be?
a better me
What is your favorite color?
all the shades of green
What is your favorite flower?
rose
What is your favorite bird?
sparrow
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Edna O'Brien and Kurt Vonnegut
Who are your favorite poets?
Seamus Heaney and me
Who are your heroes in real life?
My daughter and all soldiers male and female in any army anywhere
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Abigail Adams
What are your favorite names?
Michael and Mary
What is it you most dislike?
Posessions and large cars
What historical figures do you most despise?
Thatcher, Henry VIII and all his whores, Cromwell, all of them
What event in military history do you most admire?
Irish declaration of independence
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
play music "by ear"
How would you like to die?
with quiet dignity
What is your present state of mind?
enamoured
What is your motto?
Just go

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