Proust Questionnaire: D.S.de.P.Ramos's answers

[Answer the Proust Questionnaire] [Answers by name or age] [Random answer] [Image gallery]

On Wed, 28 Dec 11 03:39:16 UTC D.S.de.P.Ramos answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be a total social pariah.
Where would you like to live?: In a dreamland of partly my own making.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have freedom and space to create, to create, to read, have interesting friends, and a magical landscape nearby.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Illiteracy and innumeracy in those deprived, paranoia in the privileged.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: King Arthur; Tintin; Artos in 'The Three Musketeers'.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alfonso the Wise of Castile, Lord Thomas Cochrane, Belisarius.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, my aunt, my cousins, and poor women everywhere.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Andromeda; the protagonist of 'Cold Comfort Farm'(?),Dido of Carthage.
Your favorite painter?: Bonington.
Your favorite musician?: Pau Casals.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Principled pacifism, intelligence, love.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Naturalness, intelligence, relaxed curiosity.
Your favorite virtue?: All virtues springing from seeing another as different yet the same.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, walking, painting a still-life.
Who would you have liked to be?: John Evelyn.
Your most marked characteristic?: Being adrift.
What do you most value in your friends?: Wit tempered by kindness.
What is your principle defect?: Innate refusal to move.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be a hangman.
What would you like to be?: A better artist.
What is your favorite color?: Beauty lies not in colors but in their harmony
What is your favorite flower?: Mignonettes.
What is your favorite bird?: The sparrow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nicholson Baker, T.H.White, Patrick O'Brian, Dave Eggers.
Who are your favorite poets?: John Masefield, Vicente Nuñez, John Drinkwater.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Martin Bright, Avaaz's founder, whistleblower at HMRC.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Boudicca.
What are your favorite names?: Ines and Henrique
What is it you most dislike?: Me, at times. Others, at other times , but worst of all are the bankers' lackeys.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Rooseveldt, Mussolini and Franco.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Victory of Chalons-Sur-Marne.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Apt recollection of poetry.
How would you like to die?: With a son or daughter to cry for me, but be brave without me.
What is your present state of mind?: Realizing how little I examine my life like this.
What is your motto?: Dominus mihi adyutor.

Clicking on the left button will increase the likelihood of D.S.de.P.Ramos's answers being displayed as featured answer.