Proust Questionnaire: Claire Bartholomew's answers

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On Mon, 24 May 10 04:21:51 +0000 Claire Bartholomew (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To live without love.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere with lots of people; a place where I can find my niche.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have someone - or rather, a few someones - who understands me completely and loves being around me despite my [admitedly many] flaws.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a life talking about nothing and everything, all the time.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Young lovers who fight past every obstacle, simply because they believe love is more important than anything else.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Anyone who was ever brave: Queen Elizabeth, Sigmund Freud, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, King Arthur; the list goes on.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mothers.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Atypical women; women who break all boundaries and teach us more about the real ways of women.
Your favorite painter?: Anyone who brings tears to my eyes - and that is an often occurence.
Your favorite musician?: Dashboard Confessional. A pop, 20th century answer to be sure, but the truth.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Maturity; the ability to deflect drama
Your favorite virtue?: Hope, although it is not exactly a virtue.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading about characters I wish I knew - or was.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone worth loving.
Your most marked characteristic?: The spark of a vibrant personality, sharp and witty and entirely too bubbly for my own good, but within a dark, simmering soul, begging to be understood - the cliche of the century.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty; keep my most important secrets, spread the trivial gossip.
What is your principle defect?: Seeming selfishness; I do not really like to talk about myself that much, I just want to be understood.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Going through life without ever having known the most tender touch of a man.
What would you like to be?: Free and unalarmed.
What is your favorite color?: I do not have one. Colors cannot be pinned down in names. Yellow may be green, or red may be orange - it is unimportant.
What is your favorite flower?: Lilies. Because they float and they are angelic and they are, above all else, beautiful.
What is your favorite bird?: The hummingbird, because it flitters and twits.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Jane Austen, as always.
Who are your favorite poets?: Walt Whitman, because he was always unafraid.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother, because she must be strong to put up with me; my dearest friend, Mel, because she has survived the bell jar and never looked back.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth Bennet, because she was light and she knew what she wanted.
What are your favorite names?: Lily. When I am feeling capricious, Anastasia.
What is it you most dislike?: Selfishness. I cannot abide it, even at twilight.
What historical figures do you most despise?: History repeats itself, so every current leader of the world.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Hiroshima Bombing. A triumph and a sorrow, all at once.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to flirt.
How would you like to die?: In my sleep. Or - and this is selfish, please excuse me but I must say it - in a car crash when I am young, so people remember me as beautiful and full of possibilities.
What is your present state of mind?: Sorrow. Having been rejected is never a lovely thing.
What is your motto?: Everyone deserves kindness.

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