Proust Questionnaire: Dominick Miller's answers

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On Wed, 21 Apr 10 04:16:22 +0000 Dominick Miller (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The stripping away of Freedom
Where would you like to live?: On land that no one calls their own
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A good book taken with coffee and cigarettes, plus pen and paper
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Contentment and fear
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The suffering materialist: The Misfit, Ivan Karamazov, Meursault
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Plato, Spinoza and the Spanish Republicans
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women embracing eloquence
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women willing to destroy the world
Your favorite painter?: Gustave Dore
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: Calm intelligence and quiet compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Passion and intelligence and not an ounce of submissiveness
Your favorite virtue?: Responsibility
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, reading, philosophizing
Who would you have liked to be?: Socrates
Your most marked characteristic?: The need to ask and understand
What do you most value in your friends?: Compassion and novelty
What is your principle defect?: easy to anger, hard to know
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: The death of an innocent
What would you like to be?: At peace with the universe
What is your favorite color?: Red and Black
What is your favorite flower?: Lilac
What is your favorite bird?: Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell and Plato
Who are your favorite poets?: Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsburg, Percy Shelly and John Milton
Who are your heroes in real life?: Dr. David Hart and my father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir
What are your favorite names?: Russian names
What is it you most dislike?: Poets
What historical figures do you most despise?: Francisco Franco, Thomas Carlyle, Nietzsche
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Spanish Civil War and the bravery of the Repubican malitias
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Genius in verse and prose
How would you like to die?: Middle-aged and suddenly
What is your present state of mind?: Perplexed at the difficulty I have in answering these questions
What is your motto?: Our responsiblity is much greater than he might have supposed, because it involves all of mankind.

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