Proust Questionnaire: Enrique's answers

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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:23:29 UTC Enrique (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be alone with no one to talk to, not even my "self" or manifestations of myself via imaginary friends.
Where would you like to live?: The seaside. Definitely the seaside. Preferably in a quonset hut.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: In a cacophony. The sound of an orchestra tuning before a show.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: A world where art and literature is governed by the pretentious.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who seek the truth at all means. Those who desire to be good and to be happy even if they wear a suit of apathy and hatred.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lincoln, Socrates, Rizal, Marx, Churchill
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman whose persona makes the man to strive to live better.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Feminine, yet strong willed.
Your favorite painter?: Picasso
Your favorite musician?: Gershwin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, Wisdom, Desire for the Truth
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, Sincerity, Natural beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Strive for the truth and never let it go for anything else.
Your favorite occupation?: Dreaming, Writing drama, Writing music, Expressing
Who would you have liked to be?: I would like to be better-- more intelligent, yet humbler but still expressive.
Your most marked characteristic?: A determination for the truth. The strive to become true.
What do you most value in your friends?: Passion for anything. People who are willing to spend late nights debating on topics as long as there is alcohol around.
What is your principle defect?: Indecisiveness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never my father see the greatest of my works-- either my writing, my plays my music.
What would you like to be?: A friend of mine: smart, wise, but is not boring in any sense.
What is your favorite color?: Pastel tangerine.
What is your favorite flower?: Sunflowers
What is your favorite bird?: The hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Clarke, Copeland. I rarely read prose.
Who are your favorite poets?: Rilke.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father. And Ricky Abad.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Oprah
What are your favorite names?: Alexis. I would love to marry a girl named Alexis.
What is it you most dislike?: Silence. Pure silence.
What historical figures do you most despise?: I need to read more in order to answer that.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The American Civil War.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm... and lots of it.
How would you like to die?: To die fighting for the Truth of Life.
What is your present state of mind?: Trying to think in a 38 Celsius / 100.4 Fahrenheit night with the unwanted white beams of fluorescence.
What is your motto?: Seek the Truth. Quaere verum. It sounds nobler in Latin.

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