Proust Questionnaire: Ellen B Smiley's answers

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On Sat, 16 Jan 16 23:01:26 UTC Ellen B Smiley (29) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be kept.
Where would you like to live?: New Orleans
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be free to love and create as I choose.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To my misery and self-blame.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are based on the author.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Oscar Wilde, Kinsey, Freud, David Bowie
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Compassionate female police officers.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who seek help and guidance, but live their own journey.
Your favorite painter?: Renoir
Your favorite musician?: David Bowie
The quality you most admire in a man?: Womanliness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Manliness
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, singing, learning about real people I love
Who would you have liked to be?: David Bowie
Your most marked characteristic?: Painful longing for self-knowledge.
What do you most value in your friends?: Empathy and intellegence.
What is your principle defect?: A desire to please at my own detriment.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never be free.
What would you like to be?: A healer of the heart.
What is your favorite color?: Pale colors tinged with grey.
What is your favorite flower?: Lilac.
What is your favorite bird?: The Magpie.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Oscar Wilde, and varies.
Who are your favorite poets?: Ginsberg and myself.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Oscar Wilde, David Bowie.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Too many to choose from, any woman strong enough to be called a heroine, I admire.
What are your favorite names?: Lester (my brother), William, Rebecca
What is it you most dislike?: Bigotry
What historical figures do you most despise?: Unsavory characters who have shaped the world should only have their mistakes corrected, not given the head-space of hatred.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Whatever.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Willfulness
How would you like to die?: Bleeding to death.
What is your present state of mind?: So fearful and sorry (as always)
What is your motto?: Big Beats are the best, get high all the time.

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