Proust Questionnaire: Escapism's answers

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On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:34:36 UTC Escapism (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose the person I love most.
Where would you like to live?: In a small, remote cottage with rooms full of books and a garden full of sunflowers.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: An evening spent talking with a beloved person, to get lost in a good book, a purring cat, sun, Cat Stevens' music, a room full, sitting at the Danube at night singing along to a guitar.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Rudeness that is unknowing.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those that are broken and seek revenge - those that are broken and have found peace.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Strong women like Margarete Countess of Tyrol.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those that are intelligent and strong and hopeful and gentle and have a good sense of humour.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those that are intelligent and strong and hopeful and gentle and have a good sense of humour.
Your favorite painter?: Caravaggio
Your favorite musician?: Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humour, intelligence, empathy.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humour, intelligence, empathy.
Your favorite virtue?: Comitas.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, drawing, dreaming, talking.
Who would you have liked to be?: Maude from the movie Harold and Maude.
Your most marked characteristic?: A calmness that is partly shyness, partly indifference and partly just my complete lack of the need for attention.
What do you most value in your friends?: Interest in others.
What is your principle defect?: Fear.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose the person I love most.
What would you like to be?: A bit more confident, a bit more in love with life.
What is your favorite color?: Yellow
What is your favorite flower?: Sunflowers
What is your favorite bird?: The sparrow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Oscar Wilde, Jamie O'Neill
Who are your favorite poets?: Erich Kästner
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Margarete Countess of Tyrol
What are your favorite names?: Dorian, Isabelle
What is it you most dislike?: Disinterest.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Huh? I don't know.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The introduction of a replacement for military service.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charisma.
How would you like to die?: Fast and painless.
What is your present state of mind?: Sad, because I lost a friend and I can do nothing to get her back.
What is your motto?: If you want to sing out, sing out ...

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