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On Tue, 18 Apr 17 17:48:48 UTC Chief (57) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- have burns on body and with no perscribed pain medication
- Where would you like to live?
- Norway
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- walking and riding bikes in my 90s and100s
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- to a life deprived of works of genuis
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Western poetry; those who are an expression of an ideal and sometimes an ideal
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Scorates, Plato, Kierkegaard, Moore; and, some Western fiction characters
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- a woman of genious leading an ordianary life with few obstacles
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Those who are more than women without ceasing to womanly
- Your favorite painter?
- Meissonier
- Your favorite musician?
- Bach
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence, sense of exploration and sensitive
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- gentleness, naruralness, intelligence
- Your favorite virtue?
- all virtues that are not limitd to sect, or the universil virtues
- Your favorite occupation?
- reading, writing, driving, book examinations
- Who would you have liked to be?
- rachael carson, a male version
- Your most marked characteristic?
- a craving for love and adventure
- What do you most value in your friends?
- tenderness, and honesty
- What is your principle defect?
- none known
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- not having my dad and mother ever
- What would you like to be?
- myself, a full-time fiction writer and occasional non-fiction writer
- What is your favorite color?
- Blue
- What is your favorite flower?
- Rose
- What is your favorite bird?
- cardinal
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- William Johnstone,
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Baudelaire
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Milton Messenger
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Cleopatra
- What are your favorite names?
- Thane
- What is it you most dislike?
- My challenged qualities
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- I am not sufficiently educated to say
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- WarWar II, Baltle of Normandy
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Will power and charm
- How would you like to die?
- much beloved; and in my sleep in my 100s
- What is your present state of mind?
- Annoyance of having to answer so many personal questions
- What is your motto?
- keep cool; never stop intensely learning
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