Proust Questionnaire: Christopher Blaum's answers

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On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:33:11 UTC Christopher Blaum (37) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be able to describe ones problems but not to solve them.
Where would you like to live?: In the woods, in the quiet, yet near a great city.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have no responsibilities to anyone or anything save knowledge and human kind.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Weakness, incompetence.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I don' assign the title of hero.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Hitler, Prabupada, Lincoln, Jackson, Ayan Hersi Ali, Bogart
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My Wife.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women are the underpinning of every great literary man.
Your favorite painter?: Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Music follows mood; therefore, an infinite list.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Manliness (in the Frank Vincent sense), intelligence, madness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Feminine, curvy, intelligent, asuming, stable.
Your favorite virtue?: The ability to remain stoic despite all interference.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, sleeping, thinking, creating, working, nature.
Who would you have liked to be?: No one in particular, because all bodies are interchangeable.
Your most marked characteristic?: Fear of failure, craving of solitude.
What do you most value in your friends?: Ability to be abused and still recognize the value in remaining friends.
What is your principle defect?: Inability to see the path to greatness, despite the clarity of the goal.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: The end of the human race by unnatural causes.
What would you like to be?: A contributor to the cognitive progress of mankind.
What is your favorite color?: Blues and purples.
What is your favorite flower?: All flowers are infinitely beautiful. Possible the sunflower.
What is your favorite bird?: the Cardinal. The sight of one is to sight my Grandmother watching over me.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Marcel Proust, Salman Rushdie, Umberto Eco, Herman Hesse.
Who are your favorite poets?: Joyce Kilmer.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I don't assign this label.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Same.
What are your favorite names?: Stephanie and Stephen, my children's names. Both convey power and thought,
What is it you most dislike?: Myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: If a figure is "historical", then he or she has passed my one and only test - they were able to achieve.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The American Revolution.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence, piano virtuosity.
How would you like to die?: By my own hand.
What is your present state of mind?: Saddened, as this questionaire makes me think of myself.
What is your motto?: Knowledge is power only when applied to universal goals.

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