Proust Questionnaire: Chris S.'s answers

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On Fri, 01 Oct 10 06:02:26 UTC Chris S. answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Feeling useless
Where would you like to live?: A house.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A trip to the Waterfront, the Westmoreland Mall or having a girlfriend.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Gluttony and sloth
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Harry Paget Flashman, Professor Cyril Fielding, Mulai Ahmed Mummahed el-Raisuli the Magnificent (real but conceived fictionally)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: T.E. Lawrence, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott Hancock, Henry VIII (not admirable but certainly fascinating)
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mrs. Gordon and Dunlap, Professors Smith and Tsoukas.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Laura from Brief Encounter
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Maurice Jarre
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, ability to listen, self-confidence, sense of humor
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, ability to listen, tolerance, regard for others
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: I've only had one and it sucks
Who would you have liked to be?: David Lean
Your most marked characteristic?: Intelligence, laziness, insecurity and introspection
What do you most value in your friends?: Willingness to put up with
What is your principle defect?: Greed, sloth and gluttony
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Losing the love of my parents
What would you like to be?: A rich person
What is your favorite color?: Red
What is your favorite flower?: Poinsettia
What is your favorite bird?: Sun conure
Who are your favorite prose writers?: T.E. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, George Orwell
Who are your favorite poets?: Boris Pasternak
Who are your heroes in real life?: My best Professors and tecahers, my parents (especially my father), my friend Joe
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Catherine of Aragon, Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?: Elizabeth, Rebecca, Lionel
What is it you most dislike?: Failure, ignorance, stupidity, bigotry
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin,
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Union repulse of Pickett's Charge, July 3rd, 1863. Honorable mentions to the 101st Airborne at Bastogne and the Stauffenberg plot.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Attractiveness
How would you like to die?: With the satisfaction of having achieved something.
What is your present state of mind?: Melancholy and exhausted
What is your motto?: I Dreamed, I Failed, I Surfed the Web

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