Proust Questionnaire: David E.J.A Bennett's answers

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On Fri, 11 Jul 14 18:17:45 UTC David E.J.A Bennett (29) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The death of any child
Where would you like to live?: Inverness - Scottish Higlands
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be able to give other people the things which make them happy
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: allowing myself to partake in consumerism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Lord Henry Wotton, the wittiest man in literary history. his control of other humans is intriguing, although i don't agree with his intentions
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Albert Einstein, the profound humanitarian genius; Ovid, the most complete documentor of classical myth
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mother; and any woman who understands that 'Romance' is a reference to 19th century poetry
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: My very own Francine Black. I've grown to become quite fond of her
Your favorite painter?: Dali, the surrealist; Vermeer, the realist
Your favorite musician?: Morrissey
The quality you most admire in a man?: humor and intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: humor and intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: kindness
Your favorite occupation?: writing opinion, debating, wandering aimlessly around central london
Who would you have liked to be?: Plato - to know firsthand of Socrates
Your most marked characteristic?: the desire to know more
What do you most value in your friends?: humor
What is your principle defect?: not doing more to help people who need help
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have followed in my father's footsteps
What would you like to be?: everything that i am - and will be
What is your favorite color?: the unbroken green of untouched nature
What is your favorite flower?: cherry blossom and its Japanese meaning
What is your favorite bird?: the Robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Plato, Ovid, Shakespeare
Who are your favorite poets?: W. Shakespeare, R. Burns, W. Blake, W. Wordsworth, J. Keats, T. Hughes, etc
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mother
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie the double Nobel prize winner, and Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a bus
What are your favorite names?: the one that is on my mind the most
What is it you most dislike?: ignorance and lack of acting upon what people are ignorant of
What historical figures do you most despise?: Augustus, first emperor of Rome, for sending Ovid into exile out of jealousy
What event in military history do you most admire?: Defeat of Nazism at Normandy - although all militarism is abhorrent
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: more openness to my own emotions
What is your present state of mind?: at peace with itself
What is your motto?: learn something, question everything, answer nothing - which i stole from Euripides

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