Proust Questionnaire: Carolyn's answers

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On Sun, 05 Jun 11 21:12:01 UTC Carolyn (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The abyss of loneliness, from whence the love I have given is discarded unreturned.
Where would you like to live?: As the skin of the earth, where I could be equally observer and trodden upon - to experience a life of absolute knowledge with a humbled conscience.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Contentment with one's situation, held in posterity.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: A purposed ignorance to foresight.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The discarded idealists, scapegoats from whence sympathy can be produced, and the psychologically surreal.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Krishnamurti, Francis Bacon, Siddhārtha Gautama, Aegir, Robert Owen.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Diane Nash, Hélène Cixous, Jonnine Standish, Julia Kristeva, Kino MacGregor, Maria Reiche, Unmani Rubinstein, Янка Дягилева.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are terrible and beautiful, Dulle Grets.
Your favorite painter?: Luc Tuymans.
Your favorite musician?: Those who make mantras of surrealism.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Childishness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A nature of ease.
Your favorite virtue?: Abstainence from all pleasures, if only for its difficulty once these have been attained.
Your favorite occupation?: Breathing in the cool night air.
Who would you have liked to be?: Who - only myself. What - there are so many possibilities of inanimacy of which I am curious.
Your most marked characteristic?: Duality.
What do you most value in your friends?: Charm.
What is your principle defect?: Gluttony.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Love known only to the self.
What would you like to be?: Myself without abjection.
What is your favorite color?: Those as they are experienced without light.
What is your favorite flower?: Lamprocapnos spectabilis - the bleeding heart.
What is your favorite bird?: The mourning dove.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Thomas Mann.
Who are your favorite poets?: Richard Siken.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Pina Bausch, at the moment.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, St. Agatha.
What are your favorite names?: Pet names, trail names.
What is it you most dislike?: My own abjection.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Despotism is inquantifiable.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The conclusion of the Cuban Missile Crisis for the air of dramatism enriching the entire experience preceding.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Infinite reserves of willpower and my own universal application.
How would you like to die?: Determinedly.
What is your present state of mind?: A befuddled mind with several great intentions.
What is your motto?: Though it is, I am.

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