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On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:46:21 UTC Chris (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The failure to see pleasure in the mundane.
Where would you like to live?
A big city, perhaps. Where I will neither have a name nor any expectation as to how I should be. Where I can just...be.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Providing earthly happiness for another.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
An impossible sense of self-righteousness which lacks confidence.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those who celebrate failure as one would celebrate success.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Certainly the loss of any figure would alter the world as it is, so, I cannot choose.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Those who remain unafraid. No matter the circumstance.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
The one's who care not to censor their actions to remain feminine, but only do what they need to do.
Your favorite painter?
No one inparticular.
Your favorite musician?
I sometimes enjoy the work of Johann Nepomuk Hummel. But that's a secret.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Integrity, honesty, and loyalty.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Strength, morality, and integrity.
Your favorite virtue?
Those that will be followed, whether for better or poorer.
Your favorite occupation?
Thinking.
Who would you have liked to be?
I would rather have been someone who lived a less...complicated childhood. For none but selfish reasons.
Your most marked characteristic?
An incredible stubborness.
What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty and acceptance.
What is your principle defect?
The seemingly endless repitition of mistakes.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To be cursed to a livlihood lacking in contemplation and thought.
What would you like to be?
A better person.
What is your favorite color?
The color and shade of the natural world, all which reside in successive harmony.
What is your favorite flower?
Daisies.
What is your favorite bird?
A crow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Edgar Allen Poe.
Who are your favorite poets?
William Shakespear tops them all.
Who are your heroes in real life?
None other than my friends.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Joan of Arc.
What are your favorite names?
I couldn't specify.
What is it you most dislike?
Negative memory.
What historical figures do you most despise?
If not for all traitors our world would be helplessly innocent.
What event in military history do you most admire?
Dominica's abolishment of the armed force.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Stability in mind and body.
How would you like to die?
Knowing my life was not in vain.
What is your present state of mind?
Helplessness upon the inability to concentrate.
What is your motto?
Live each day as if it will be a disaster, and make it a point to prove yourself wrong.

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