Proust Questionnaire: Candlewycke's answers

On Fri, 25 Nov 11 19:54:11 UTC Candlewycke answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: the solitude coming from actions making yourself undesirable
Where would you like to live?: in the mountains in a cabin
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: my wife and son, books and to be the master of my own time
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: the archetypes of wisdom and trickery
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lincoln, teddy roosevelt, lao tsu,
Your favorite painter?: Norman rockwell, rembrandt, manet
The quality you most admire in a man?: self reflection
The quality you most admire in a woman?: the courage to display fenine virtues boldly
Your favorite occupation?: art in all its forms
Your most marked characteristic?: old fashioned values
What is your principle defect?: lack of motivation, ambition
What is your favorite color?: earth tones
What is your favorite flower?: dandelion, because to all others it is only a weed yet its beauty lies in its tenacity.
What is your favorite bird?: the crow, that trickster and psycopomp, also the owl.
What is it you most dislike?: myself when I accept less than I know to be possible.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: ars memoria
How would you like to die?: nobly
What is your motto?: that which makes us happy, makes us wise.

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