Proust Questionnaire: Crystal's answers

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On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:00:05 UTC Crystal (32) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Spiritual bankruptcy, addiction, deprivation.
Where would you like to live?: Europe
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be immersed in artistic beauty, to be spiritually fulfilled, and to be near nature
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Impulsivity, lack of discipline, prolonging the inevitable,
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The outsiders, the dark, the tortured, and the romantic, bohemians or drifter types
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Literary figures, mostly, poets, and artist types, (The Bloomsbury Group)
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who have the courage to be who they are and strip naked of societal apparel or disregard the so-called norm
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: This is a redundant question!
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Sarah Mclachlan, Joni Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Stevie Nicks, Beth Orton, Carole King, Natalie Merchant, Mazzy Star, etc
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humbleness, silence, reserve, intelligence.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Beauty, grace, intelligence, strength, nurturance, depth, humour, creativity, complexity, mystery, etc.
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, creating, breathing in the scenery.
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself
Your most marked characteristic?: Compassion
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty, openess, humour, compassion, etc
What is your principle defect?: Impulsivity
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: A world without art, without books, without beauty or nature
What would you like to be?: Transcendant
What is your favorite color?: Dark, rustic hues
What is your favorite flower?: Chrysanthemums, Rhododendrons, Roses, etc
What is your favorite bird?: The raven, black bird or crow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Virginia Wolf, Anna Kavan, Jean Rhys, Margaret Atwood, Anais Nin, Margarita Karapanou, Patricia Highsmith, Proust, Kafka, Ballard,etc
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marina Tsvetayeva, Anna Akhmatova, Sappho, Kostas Kariotakis, C.P Cavafy, Seferis, Cesar Vallejo, Pablo Neruda, Ranier M. Rilke, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Renée Vivien , etc!
Who are your heroes in real life?: Eric M. Kashino
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Redundant again..
What are your favorite names?: Odd question...I like Troy for a boy...not sure about a girl...so many lovely lady names..
What is it you most dislike?: Bigotry, Selfishness, close-minded people.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler for one...Jesus for another.
What event in military history do you most admire?: not!
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Talent
How would you like to die?: Consciously
What is your present state of mind?: Fluctuating
What is your motto?: I do not have any one motto for living, but something along the lines of be yourself.

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