Proust Questionnaire: Chari's answers

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On Tue, 27 Apr 10 16:52:07 +0000 Chari (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be without love
Where would you like to live?: In Plato's Republic or London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Boundless love and endless music
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Utopic nihilism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who suffer as humans
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Saint Francis, Saint Augustine, Guy Fawkes and Benito Juárez
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Lucy and my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who stand up above men
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Gavin Harrison
The quality you most admire in a man?: Sensibility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Humbleness
Your favorite occupation?: Writing and playing music and the study of philosophy
Who would you have liked to be?: Friederich Engels
Your most marked characteristic?: The need to feel human
What do you most value in your friends?: Trustworthiness and the time they take off to listen to me
What is your principle defect?: Taking situations to unecessary heights
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be left without a home
What would you like to be?: A thought of a loved one
What is your favorite color?: All shades of dark colors
What is your favorite flower?: Lucy's and carnations
What is your favorite bird?: The Hawk and the Owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Cortázar, Ibargüengoitia, Joseph Conrad
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Coleridge
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father and Armando
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Catherine the Great
What are your favorite names?: Those that relate to wisdom and piety
What is it you most dislike?: The simplicity of faith
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hernán Cortés and Joseph Bonaparte
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Siege of Cuautla
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Music
How would you like to die?: WIth my loved ones around, having written a book, planted a tree and befathered a child
What is your present state of mind?: The struggle between reality and an ideal of love
What is your motto?: Dedicate your life to understanding the universe through philosophy and science, spend your last hours contemplating on the beauty and Divinity of Creation

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