Proust Questionnaire: Edouard's answers

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On Tue, 22 Mar 11 03:38:22 UTC Edouard (41) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be jailed, enslaved and tortured.
Where would you like to live?: Planet Earth
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live everyday with Emily.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To be unashamedly addicted to coffee.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hamlet, Prince Myshkin.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Malcolm X, Genghis Khan, Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Tolstoy.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Ophelia.
Your favorite painter?: Caravaggio.
Your favorite musician?: Each member of the Wu Tang Clan.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Dignity, courage.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Grace, tenderness.
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion.
Your favorite occupation?: Lying down, sipping coffee, reading, aimless walking, posting meaningless messages on Facebook.
Who would you have liked to be?: Chin Shi Huang, the emperor of the Chin Dynasty.
Your most marked characteristic?: My intuitive and instinctive nature (and my lack of rationality and intellectual depth).
What do you most value in your friends?: Understanding of my defects, interest in discussing art, literature, politics and trivia.
What is your principle defect?: Being ruled by my emotions.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be jailed, enslaved and tortured.
What would you like to be?: A good person.
What is your favorite color?: Gray and Blue (but it once was green).
What is your favorite flower?: I don't have one.
What is your favorite bird?: I don't think of birds that way but if I had to choose it would be a small one like the hummingbird.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: There are too many: Ha Jin, Dostoyevsky, Seneca, Henry Miller are but a few.
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Yeats, Old Dirty Bastard.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Virginia Woolf, the Soong sisters, the Queen of Sheba, Xavier Hollander.
What are your favorite names?: Groucho, Harpo and Chico.
What is it you most dislike?: Hypocrisy, delusion and getting that Asian red face after one sip of beer.
What historical figures do you most despise?: The forgotten multitude that perpetuated the oppression and subjugation of humanity.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The battle of Stalingrad.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Musical talent.
How would you like to die?: Peacefully in my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Serenity.
What is your motto?: Hello pension, goodbye tension.

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