Proust Questionnaire: Dean 's answers

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On Sun, 10 Jan 16 19:16:26 UTC Dean (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: I don't know. I've never experienced something as unhappy.
Where would you like to live?: Subic or Cape Town
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live without restraint---especially worry.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Spending hours on the hardly edcuational part of Youtube
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Santiago (The Old Man and the Sea), Pi (Life of Pi), Zuko
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Saladin, Akbar II, and Henry VIII, because Henry VIII does whatever the fuck he wants
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women unbound by the label "woman". Then they seek to make those bounds matter less. But never looking down on women who do.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The American girl (Cat in the Rain), Amelie, Toph, Chihiro
Your favorite painter?: Bob Fucking Ross. Henri Matisse or Pollock.
Your favorite musician?: Franco
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humble genius
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humble genius
Your favorite virtue?: I don't think I have one. I doubt I even practice a tiny fraction.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, going to museums, doing great stuff with great friends. Anything that blossoms creativity
Who would you have liked to be?: I can't imagine myself being somebody else.
Your most marked characteristic?: Inappropriate humor
What do you most value in your friends?: Wit, creativity, and lack of pretension. I've always been a firm believer in that you are the average of the people you spend the most time with.
What is your principle defect?: Copying rather than innovating
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: A life without books, the sea, and good company
What would you like to be?: A genius. Scratch that---happy.
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Water lilies
What is your favorite bird?: Penguins!
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway, Joyce and Twain (haven't read any of their works yet), Green, Blume, Carroll
Who are your favorite poets?: Carroll, Basho, T.S. Elliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: Myself--for getting it this far.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Anne Frank
What are your favorite names?: Hassan
What is it you most dislike?: Pretension
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those with horrible goals
What event in military history do you most admire?: Defense of Thermopylae
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Effortless charisma
How would you like to die?: I don't ever want to know. Never spoil a good book, even unfinished ones.
What is your present state of mind?: Deep thinking at 3AM. Yep, one of those.
What is your motto?: Cut out the uneccessary.

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