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On Wed, 26 Oct 16 19:00:48 UTC Dilip C Louis (32) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To wallow so deeply in self pity as to not realize the sheer joy of simply being alive
- Where would you like to live?
- In a really big house with lots of family and friends on premises
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To be dedicated to some life-long project of social benefit, preferably with family and friends by my side; to have sound mind and sound body for as long as possible
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- The lack of a love life, and the feeling that women see through my weaknesses and will never really desire me
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Jean Valjean, Ip Man (not really fiction I guess), Alan Breck Stewart, Huckleberry Finn
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Seneca The Younger, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Socrates, Nehru, JFK, Faraday, Alan Turing...many more
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Elizabeth Warren, my mother
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Violet Baudelaire, Leslie Knope
- Your favorite painter?
- Probably anyone who brings out beauty in the ordinary
- Your favorite musician?
- Keith Richards
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Cooperation
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Determination
- Your favorite virtue?
- Courage
- Your favorite occupation?
- Running
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Bill Gates
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Unfortunately many people might say I'm "nice", but I don't like that word. I think that my power of introspection and self-correction is formidable.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- They should have my back like I have theirs. For example, I would never publicly humiliate a friend to get a laugh from an audience.
- What is your principle defect?
- Lack of willpower
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have had everything "work out" the way I sometimes wish it did
- What would you like to be?
- Always content, always pushing forward, there for others when they need me
- What is your favorite color?
- British Racing Green
- What is your favorite flower?
- Delonix regia
- What is your favorite bird?
- Hummingbird
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Not sure what a prose writer is.....
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Omar Khayyam, Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My parents, my colleague JJ, my colleague Ed
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Indira Gandhi, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie
- What are your favorite names?
- Olympia, Elizabeth, Isabel, James,
- What is it you most dislike?
- When I go against what I know I should do
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Mohammed, Henry Kissinger (the bastard is still alive, but thankfully no longer causing global mayhem)
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Kruschev and JFK ignoring their hawks and backing away from a potential nuclear WW3 during the Cuban Missile Crisis
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Continous Humour
- How would you like to die?
- Knowing that I did well in Life, and surrounded by loved ones
- What is your present state of mind?
- Happiness at how far I've come in the past two years in terms of my mental state
- What is your motto?
- All real value arises within me.
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