Proust Questionnaire: Erict7's answers

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On Tue, 16 Apr 13 13:30:05 UTC Erict7 answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Losing someone you love.
Where would you like to live?: Virginia!
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: The company of friends.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: A momentary lacking of motivation to learn and study the world.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Asimov's new species in The Gods Themselves
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Caesar
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Military wives
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those similar to the main woman in Hercules, whose name currently escapes me
Your favorite painter?: No clue.
Your favorite musician?: Does John Cleese count?
The quality you most admire in a man?: Maturity, intellect, an understanding of the world and how it works
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Much the same, patience
Your favorite virtue?: Ability to reason
Your favorite occupation?: Doing what I can to take care of others when they are not able or choose not to
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself. Everybody else has a specific role and I might well not exist were things different, which would invalidate the question
Your most marked characteristic?: The over consumption of food
What do you most value in your friends?: Integrity and loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Temporary inability to reason analytically
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be destined to cause more harm than help
What would you like to be?: A turtle. Just kidding, only myself
What is your favorite color?: Those of higher energy, for they are of a more relaxed tone
What is your favorite flower?: I don't know enough about flowers to feel qualified to answer this question
What is your favorite bird?: None come to mind
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Isaac Asimov
Who are your favorite poets?: Unknown...
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who do what I am not capable of
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan de Arc
What are your favorite names?: Choosing favorite names creates a predisposition toward/against new people
What is it you most dislike?: A lack of education and the maturity to at least accept that
What historical figures do you most despise?: Everyone has served his/her purpose
What event in military history do you most admire?: John Paul Jones: "I have not yet begun to fight."
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to teach others to think
How would you like to die?: However I am supposed to
What is your present state of mind?: Slight bewilderment at the presence of this multitude of non-UVA students sitting in my class
What is your motto?: If your problem has a solution, why worry? If your problem has no solution, why worry?

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