Proust Questionnaire: Dru's answers

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On Sun, 10 Oct 10 00:20:39 UTC Dru (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Blissful ignorance.
Where would you like to live?: Several places in California
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Growing knowledge, consistent creativity, lasting love, beautiful surroundings, freedom, and independence.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Anxiety and depression; stubbornness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Marcel of Remembrance of Things Past, Blanche of Brideshead Revisited.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Spinoza, Sappho, Hecate, Saint Cecilia.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Maya Deren, Audrey Hepburn, Mia Farrow, Katherine Dunham.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Mick Kelly of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Your favorite painter?: Kandinsky, Schiele.
Your favorite musician?: Bach, Stevie Nicks.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Independence.
Your favorite virtue?: Fortitude.
Your favorite occupation?: "Reading, dreaming, and writing verse."
Who would you have liked to be?: a witch
Your most marked characteristic?: Oddity
What do you most value in your friends?: Listening.
What is your principle defect?: Not listening well.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never be great.
What would you like to be?: Great.
What is your favorite color?: Chartreuse and black.
What is your favorite flower?: Indian water lily
What is your favorite bird?: Grackle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Proust, Dostoevsky, McCullers, Frame.
Who are your favorite poets?: All the Russians.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My lover.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: magical women
What are your favorite names?: Lucas, Marcus, Tara, Aurora
What is it you most dislike?: Cruelty.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Nietzsche.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Waterloo.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Advanced ability to visualize inventions.
How would you like to die?: On a beach at night; alone.
What is your present state of mind?: Itchy sweaters and orange drink on a rainy day do not equate to comfort or happiness.
What is your motto?: Be your ideal lover.

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