Proust Questionnaire: Deborah S. Wilson's answers

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On Fri, 11 Nov 11 16:30:04 UTC Deborah S. Wilson (56) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being broke, under-employed, and hungry
Where would you like to live?: San Francisco
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: I think Proust had it right. Except that I would want access to all kinds of theaters, libraries, museums.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: diffidence
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Leopold Bloom. He was my first literary crush, at the age of 16.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Herodotus, Henry IV of France
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my late friend Jeanne Andrew, Dale Bauer, Susie Day, Laurie Hanna, Judith Schiller, Maureen Svenson
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre
Your favorite painter?: Dagmar Chaplin
Your favorite musician?: Bonnie Raitt
The quality you most admire in a man?: idealism, moral sense, even-temper
The quality you most admire in a woman?: idealism, moral sense, even temper
Your favorite virtue?: honesty
Your favorite occupation?: dreaming, conversing with friends
Who would you have liked to be?: A better me
Your most marked characteristic?: directness
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty and kindness
What is your principle defect?: generousity and loyalty
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have made the friends I've made throughout my life
What would you like to be?: A better me
What is your favorite color?: Red
What is your favorite flower?: anthuriums and birds of paradise
What is your favorite bird?: the red lorie
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Virginia Woolf, ZJames Lee Burke, and Gloria Naylor
Who are your favorite poets?: Dante
Who are your heroes in real life?: Lou Salvatore, Roger Salomon, Marry Carruthers
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any woman who did the right thing in trying to save others from persecution or harm
What are your favorite names?: Andrea, David
What is it you most dislike?: flattery
What historical figures do you most despise?: the usual suspects--Torqemada, Stalin, Pol Pot, Franco, Hitler and others like them
What event in military history do you most admire?: D-Day
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a beautiful coloratura contralto voice, as adept in blues as opera
How would you like to die?: Fully aware that I am dying, and completely unafraid
What is your present state of mind?: restive
What is your motto?: Da Noive!

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