Proust Questionnaire: Christopher M.'s answers

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On Wed, 09 May 12 19:10:46 UTC Christopher M. (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being in constant, agonizing pain
Where would you like to live?: Switzerland or the American Southwest
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Waking up every morning in a place that constantly inspires me.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Frivolous purchases
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those of antiquity.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great, Tutankhamen, Martin Luther and Jesus.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are not well behaved and end up changing the course of history.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who transcend space and time and thus, become so much more womanly
Your favorite painter?: Degas
Your favorite musician?: Mahler
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Confidence and gentility
Your favorite virtue?: Humility
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, relaxed conversation
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to have been Mozart.
Your most marked characteristic?: Brutal honesty
What do you most value in your friends?: Responsibility
What is your principle defect?: My sometimes volatile temper
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have known my grandfather
What would you like to be?: Finally successful and globally aware.
What is your favorite color?: Red
What is your favorite flower?: Daisies
What is your favorite bird?: the Red-tailed hawk. Because it reminds me of my childhood.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: You can never go wrong with a well-written travel novel
Who are your favorite poets?: Wordsworth and Robert Frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: They need not be mentioned. They know who they are.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I'm a big fan of Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth
What are your favorite names?: For boys, I like Mathieu and Lukas. For girls, Cecile and Amelia
What is it you most dislike?: Ignorance and intolerance
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who sat idly by while the world burned around them.
What event in military history do you most admire?: the Second World War
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To be able to compound interest in my head
How would you like to die?: Quietly and without fanfare
What is your present state of mind?: A convergence of the things that I wish that I had said.
What is your motto?: Leave your corner of the world a little brighter than you left it.

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