Proust Questionnaire: Evie's answers

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On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:00:29 UTC Evie (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have no friends
Where would you like to live?: On a property in the Hunter Valley or somewhere similar
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To never run out of good books to read, to never lose contact with my closest friends or family
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Mr. Rochester for saying the most romantic thing I have ever heard
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Anastasia Romanov, Evita, St. Genevieve
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who have the strength to stand up for themselves even though it might mean death
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre despite her sometimes holier-than-thou attitude. She had strength. Tatiana Metanova because she had strength
Your favorite painter?: Degas followed closely by Monet
Your favorite musician?: Regina Spektor
The quality you most admire in a man?: Sense of humour, strength
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intuition
Your favorite virtue?: Cleanliness...
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone wildly glamorous and rich in the 1920's or 1940's
Your most marked characteristic?: Happiness
What do you most value in your friends?: Putting up with me ness
What is your principle defect?: Lying or giving in too easily
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not having my brother or sister in my life
What would you like to be?: Myself but a better version that God could be proud of
What is your favorite color?: Tangerine
What is your favorite flower?: Lisianthius
What is your favorite bird?: Peacock
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Melina Marchetta, Jaclyn Moriarty, Paulina Simons (I just went for favourite authors)
Who are your favorite poets?: Gwen Hardwood, Keats
Who are your heroes in real life?: Many people for different reasons
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Evita, Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Lydia, Ashlyn, Rosanna, Alexander, Finn
What is it you most dislike?: Dirty bathrooms and dirty kitchens
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler and any other man or woman who killed for no other reason than to kill
What event in military history do you most admire?: ANZAC Day
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The power to intoxicate or make everyone immediately love me
How would you like to die?: Quietly and with the people I love knowing how much I love them
What is your present state of mind?: Exhausted and realising I don't really know myself
What is your motto?: You win some, you lose some... though I do hate to lose

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