Proust Questionnaire: Ellen Fitzpatrick's answers

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On Sun, 05 Oct 14 23:17:37 UTC Ellen Fitzpatrick (61) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Forgetting that all things change
Where would you like to live?: Where names are known and touch is exchanged
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To think of one whom I know is thinking of me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Bitterness engendered by loneliness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hosea, and the one I am discovering at any given moment
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jacqueline Kennedy, Gertrude Stein, St. Therese of Lisieux
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Kate Millett, Renee Fleming, my sister Susan Boehlert
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Glencora Palliser, Gunter Grass's women in "The Flounder"
Your favorite painter?: John Singer Sargent because he gives me people
Your favorite musician?: Rachmaninoff
The quality you most admire in a man?: Nobility, kindness in strength, stillness, a seeking mind, a sense of the ridiculous
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Nobility, kindness in strength, stillness, a seeking mind, a sense of the ridiculous
Your favorite virtue?: Humility in the face of truth and genius
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, having written, loving, cooking food for someone I love
Who would you have liked to be?: Kinder
Your most marked characteristic?: Confusion
What do you most value in your friends?: Love reflected in their eyes
What is your principle defect?: Cynicism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: When it happens, I will know
What would you like to be?: Dancing the dying swan in Swan Lake
What is your favorite color?: The red of my lipstick drawing close to my lover's lips
What is your favorite flower?: The peony
What is your favorite bird?: The bird closest to me at any moment, the bird in my line of sight
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Trollope, Dickens, Cheever, Wilder, Updike, Bellow, Eliot
Who are your favorite poets?: Creeley, Auden, Elliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: They keep dying.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Lillian Hellman, Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt
What are your favorite names?: Names I whisper in the dark
What is it you most dislike?: Hangnails
What historical figures do you most despise?: They are dead, it is enough.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The freeing of prisoners anywhere.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To be of comfort.
How would you like to die?: By my own hand.
What is your present state of mind?: Contemplative.
What is your motto?: It's a great life if you don't weaken.

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