Proust Questionnaire: Carlisle's answers

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On Tue, 15 Jan 13 19:13:45 UTC Carlisle answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The death of a loved one
Where would you like to live?: A safe & beautiful city in a temperate zone
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Same as Proust's, except a good movie theatre
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Sloth, then gluttony
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Alan Breck Stewart, Tallis of "A Fairly Honourable Defeat", Charlie Burns of the film "The Proposition"
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, Rommel, Malcolm X
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Nancy Mitford and her sisters
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennett, Martha Sinnott of "A Charmed Life"
Your favorite painter?: My grandmother, Ann Shute
Your favorite musician?: My sister, Kristina Cosumano
The quality you most admire in a man?: Moral and physical courage
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness, intelligence, beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Niceness, integrity
Your favorite occupation?: Reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone who succeeded in killing Hitler
Your most marked characteristic?: Clumsiness
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness
What is your principle defect?: Fearfulness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be allergic to animals
What would you like to be?: A critically acclaimed writer
What is your favorite color?: Clothes: black, gray. Wall colors: yellow, off-white.
What is your favorite flower?: Lime blossom
What is your favorite bird?: Wood thrush, tree swallow, cardinal, starling
Who are your favorite prose writers?: RL Stevenson, Mary McCarthy, Jane Austen, Iris Murdoch
Who are your favorite poets?: TS Eliot, WS Merwin
Who are your heroes in real life?: Rosa Nicholas, Peter Stallybrass
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Mary Queen of Scots
What are your favorite names?: Elizabeth, Katherine, Robert, Juliet
What is it you most dislike?: Cruelty, pain, loud noises
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Vlad the Impaler
What event in military history do you most admire?: Lee's surrender
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Beauty, athleticism, discipline
How would you like to die?: In my sleep, in my own bed
What is your present state of mind?: Contented
What is your motto?: Living Well Is the Best Revenge

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