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On Sat, 17 Sep 16 00:17:14 UTC Cal (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Apathy, to feel nothing at all.
- Where would you like to live?
- In a place where I would be free to read, write and share my writing without fear of financial ruin or of being silenced.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Reading stories of wonder, writing stories I enjoy, and living with or near those I love.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Forgoing and earthly existence for a daydream within myself.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those misfits who quietly, but proudly maintain who they are when faced with pressure from the mob.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- J.R.R Tolkien, C.S Lewis, Albert Camus, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Kurt Cobain.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- A woman of kindness, understanding, and moral sense like J.K. Rowling.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Those misfits who quietly, but proudly maintain who they are when faced with pressure from the mob.
- Your favorite painter?
- Vincent van Gogh
- Your favorite musician?
- Kurt Cobain or Adam Gontier
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Being sincerely himself
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Being sincerely herself
- Your favorite virtue?
- Empathy
- Your favorite occupation?
- Writing
- Who would you have liked to be?
- J.R.R. Tolkien or J.D. Salinger or Kurt Cobain
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My obsession with self-actualization.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- The ability to understand and embrace who I am, and do the same for themselves.
- What is your principle defect?
- Extreme Empathy; being overly concerned with other's emotional well-being.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To be cut-off from one's own heart and personal sense of morality.
- What would you like to be?
- Myself
- What is your favorite color?
- Black, as it represents taking in all colours.
- What is your favorite flower?
- A water lily
- What is your favorite bird?
- The nightingale
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Neil Gaiman, C.S Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, and J.K Rowling
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton, William Blake, and William Shakespeare
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Franz Kafka, George Orwell
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- J.K Rowling
- What are your favorite names?
- Those that have meaning
- What is it you most dislike?
- Apathy; a lack of strong feelings, betraying one's own viewpoint.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Those who disrespect individuality; Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Vladamir Lenin, Mao Zedong, etc.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- I do not admire military history, but I respect those who choose to risk their lives in military service
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The ability to talk with people I'm interested without coming across as someone to avoid.
- How would you like to die?
- Lying on a couch in my personal library beside a woman who loves me.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Introspective and enjoyable so.
- What is your motto?
- I'd rather feel something than nothing at all.
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