Proust Questionnaire: Erin's answers

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On Thu, 06 Mar 14 02:28:17 UTC Erin answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

Where would you like to live?: In the romanticised places that exist in my mind.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To exist where money didn't matter; could not matter.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Anger and lazyness dangerously combined with judgemental capabilities
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Whoever I am reading about at the time. Sherlock Holmes
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I'm unsure.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are smart and quick witted. Renee from Elegance of the Hedgehog/
Your favorite painter?: I know nothing of art.
Your favorite musician?: Modest Mouse and The Slackers
The quality you most admire in a man?: Authentic, unafraid femininity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Subservience. Not really. One who speaks of unfemine things.
Your favorite virtue?: To favour one would be to place one goodness above the rest. I need them all.
Your favorite occupation?: In my head if I could bake, a baker. A poet or a funeral home director.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone without all my anxiety, someone who is filled to the brim with unceasless joy.
Your most marked characteristic?: . A desire to fit within the world and the people that are living in it.
What do you most value in your friends?: Patience with me.
What is your principle defect?: Anger. Judgmental tendencies. Lack of critical thinking.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live in vapid bliss.
What would you like to be?: Someone who changes a small part of the world. Someone useful.
What is your favorite bird?: The Yellow Rumped Warbler.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Margarett Atwood.
Who are your favorite poets?: Charles Bukowski, Sylvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father and brother and those who can do that which I cannot.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I don't remember my history lessons one bit.
What are your favorite names?: That's always changing depending on who I want to be and who I admire at that moment
What is it you most dislike?: Myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: I don't know many so I'll say Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None. The military is not to be admired.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: of being able to speak with anyone about anything.
How would you like to die?: Sufficiently proud of my life. Without sadness and regret.
What is your present state of mind?: Trying to hard to be as amazing as Proust
What is your motto?: Who needs a motto when you have cliches. (That's not my motto)

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