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On Tue, 20 Apr 10 14:06:36 +0000 Elizabeth (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- to lose all the people you love
- Where would you like to live?
- Alabama, mostly because it's where the rest of my family lives
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- having a loving family, an income sufficient to your needs, enough books to read, and a goal to work toward
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- I'm actually pretty forgiving of most faults. Everyone has them, after all. I do find it hard to forgive people who don't care about hurting others.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Miles Vorkosigan, Harry Dresden
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Joseph Smith, Jesus Christ... I truly tried to think of some non-religious ones and failed
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- my mother, who is a better person than I will ever be, and my older sister, who is a more confident person than I will ever be, and Stephenie Meyer, who has already lived my dream
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Cordelia Naismith, Mercy Thompson, Amelia Peabody, Elizabeth Bennett
- Your favorite painter?
- Michael Whelan
- Your favorite musician?
- I couldn't possibly narrow it down to one, or even ten.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- moral integrity
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- the same
- Your favorite virtue?
- Love. I know that's a cliche, but it really is the greatest one, from which all the others flow.
- Your favorite occupation?
- writing, when it's going well and everything is falling into place in ways that I didn't even intend
- Who would you have liked to be?
- someone more patient, courageous, and self-disciplined than myself.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- probably my goofy humor
- What do you most value in your friends?
- trustworthiness
- What is your principle defect?
- laziness, lack of self-discipline
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- to have a childhood so warped, it destroys all chance of happiness in later life, so that your whole existence is futile
- What would you like to be?
- a writer whose work means something real to people; a mother who keeps her children on the right path
- What is your favorite color?
- blue and silver
- What is your favorite flower?
- I'm not very educated on flowers, but I always enjoyed the various inhabitants of the "old rose" garden at Troy
- What is your favorite bird?
- sparrow, wren, or any other drab, delicate little thing that hops about in the parking lot. Also ducks.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, Stephenie Meyer, Orson Scott Card, Wen Spencer
- Who are your favorite poets?
- William Shakespeare
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- my father, who catches bad guys and plays with his children
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Queen Victoria
- What are your favorite names?
- girls: Callista, Cordelia, Ariana, Lily, Alice. boys: Gabriel, Joseph, Tobias, Jonah.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Selfishness. The unconscious self-absorption of the spoiled child is maddening, but worse are the people who KNOW others have feelings, and deliberately disregard them.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Well, Hitler, of course. Some of the more psychotic Roman emperors. King Henry the 8th. Rasputin.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- I truly don't know enough about military history to say.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- willpower
- How would you like to die?
- prepared and unafraid
- What is your present state of mind?
- pensive
- What is your motto?
- Same as my blood type: B positive!
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