Proust Questionnaire: David ROWE's answers

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On Sat, 13 Oct 12 23:29:34 UTC David ROWE (42) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lack Inspiration.
Where would you like to live?: The Grail Castle or a houseboat on the Seine.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Requited Love.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Those which stem from Insecurity and Fear.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Don Quixote, the Little Prince, Holden Caulfield.
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh.
Your favorite musician?: Nina Simone.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Passion.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Passion.
Your favorite virtue?: Integrity.
Your favorite occupation?: Loving.
Who would you have liked to be?: N/A
Your most marked characteristic?: Intensity.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty.
What is your principle defect?: I am Quixotic.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never know Love.
What would you like to be?: For better or for worse, I am exactly what I always wanted to be, a Poet & a Daddy.
What is your favorite color?: The color of my Beloved's Eyes.
What is your favorite flower?: Giant Sunflower.
What is your favorite bird?: The male Cardinal.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Fulcanelli, Dostoyevsky, Cortazar, Kerouac, Henry Miller, Artaud, Robert Graves.
Who are your favorite poets?: Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Rumi, Richard Hugo, Octavio Paz, ee cummings.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Single mothers.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Frida Kahlo, Marilyn Monroe.
What are your favorite names?: Zoya (my daughter's name) & Sylvia (my godmother's) for a girl, Tristan for a boy.
What is it you most dislike?: Superficiality in all its many manifestations. You might also call it Meanness or Ugliness.
What historical figures do you most despise?: All those who have abused their power.
What event in military history do you most admire?: When my namesake, David, the shepherd boy, felled the giant, Goliath.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To sing.
How would you like to die?: In the arms of my wife.
What is your present state of mind?: A bit melancholy.
What is your motto?: If you can't beat em: Poem.

I am the author of the collection, "Unsolicited Poems" (Verna Press, NOLA). My website is: http://www.myspace.com/davidiotraw

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