Proust Questionnaire: Caitlin's answers

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On Sat, 11 Apr 15 10:52:18 UTC Caitlin (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Periods.
Where would you like to live?: San Francisco, in a Queen Victoria style house in the Mission district.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be not too hot and not too cold, being with animals.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I'm lazy as fuck.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Picard.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gregor Mendel, Bourdieu, Hitchens.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Lucy Harris, that Mexican woman who performed a caesarian section on herself while her husband was at a cantina.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Hermione Granger, Janeway.
Your favorite painter?: So many.
Your favorite musician?: Yuck, Passion Pit, They Might be Giants, all those true visionaries.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Clean shavenness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Clean shavenness
Your favorite virtue?: Being tolerable all the time, being able to critically examine oneself.
Your favorite occupation?: Art, dog.
Who would you have liked to be?: One of the people walking through New York in Koyaanisqatsi.
Your most marked characteristic?: slight eccentricity
What do you most value in your friends?: Being able to hold a naturally flowing and interesting conversation.
What is your principle defect?: I'm fucked.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Being deprived of nerdy leisure activities.
What would you like to be?: Someone virtuous but critical. Someone unaffected by cynicism.
What is your favorite color?: I rolled my eyes at Proust's answer but he's completely right.
What is your favorite flower?: wildflowers.
What is your favorite bird?: Bush-Stone Curlew
Who are your favorite prose writers?: G. Orwell
Who are your favorite poets?: C. Gambino.
Who are your heroes in real life?: The one journalist who filmed the Santa Cruz massacre in Timor and got it out of the country by putting blood on her underwear and putting the tape down there to put the guards off.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Artemisia Gentileschi, all those other ones.
What are your favorite names?: Bree, Orange, Hannah, Cris(p).
What is it you most dislike?: Having to get up early when I'm still sleepy.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pol pot, Thomas Aquinas, Henry Kissinger, Hon. David Burnett.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't admire anything about military history.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Physical strength and speed.
How would you like to die?: In a freak accident when I'm fairly old.
What is your present state of mind?: Self-conscious about my answers.
What is your motto?: I don't have a motto.

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