Proust Questionnaire: Doug's answers

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On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:48:33 UTC Doug (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be completely alone in the world
Where would you like to live?: an apartment in a major city
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be surrounded by friends, be head-over-heels in love, and constantly creating works of art.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: over-indulgence in earthly pleasures
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those who do what they do for the betterment of the contiuance of their ideas.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Christ, Buddha, and Shakespeare
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Any woman who lives her truth whether it's popular for her to do so or not.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who step beyond their traditional roles and show that they truely ARE equal to men.
Your favorite painter?: Van Goh
Your favorite musician?: Scott Weiland
The quality you most admire in a man?: Living their truth despite it's popularity or lack thereof
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Living their truth despite it's popularity or lack thereof
Your favorite virtue?: perfect love
Your favorite occupation?: acting
Who would you have liked to be?: The person I am, of course. Faults and all.
Your most marked characteristic?: My passionate dedication to whatever I do
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty and , of course, their friendship.
What is your principle defect?: My passion
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Having missed anything that made me the person I am today.
What would you like to be?: Myself - as I am.
What is your favorite color?: Crimson
What is your favorite flower?: Hers - but apart from that, all (good answer, proust. Think I'll steal it.)
What is your favorite bird?: the Seviere Macaw
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Emmerson, Thoreau, and those of that era
Who are your favorite poets?: Coleridge, Heaney, Dante and Marlow
Who are your heroes in real life?: Christ, Buddha, my grandfather
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Rosa Parks
What are your favorite names?: mine.
What is it you most dislike?: people with exceptional poker faces....more accurately, my inability to read them.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler....though despise is a rather strong word. Can't we simply say "approve of least"?
What event in military history do you most admire?: The ending of any war that has ever been ended.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: control of my passions
How would you like to die?: surrounded by my friends and family.
What is your present state of mind?: restless
What is your motto?: The truest measure of a human being is their capacity for love.

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