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On Tue, 14 Jan 14 16:16:16 UTC FYS14julie answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to live longer than your children
Where would you like to live?: in a high place near big water with four seasons
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a fabulous book with more than 500 pages, a big chair, and a nice bottle of wine
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: bad spelling and social awkwardness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: girls with guts
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Einstein, St Francis, Da Vinci, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, every forgotten woman who made a difference
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: women who get called 'bitch' They are almost always totally cool
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: women who don't answer stupid questions or idiotic insults.
Your favorite painter?: at the moment, Twombly and Jasper Johns
Your favorite musician?: Bach and Paul Simon
The quality you most admire in a man?: courtly intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligent elligance
Your favorite virtue?: pleasure in all vital things
Your favorite occupation?: reading, walking, listening, watching, breathing
Who would you have liked to be?: wonder woman
Your most marked characteristic?: an irritating charm marked by inexplicable cheerfulness
What do you most value in your friends?: survival
What is your principle defect?: an irritating charm marked by inexplicable cheerfulness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to live longer than my son
What would you like to be?: an irish pub singer with red hair
What is your favorite color?: i liked them mixed up
What is your favorite flower?: lily
What is your favorite bird?: robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: whatever I'm reading
Who are your favorite poets?: dickenson and paul simon
Who are your heroes in real life?: my best girlfriends. amazing
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?: I don't like names
What is it you most dislike?: tedium and rudness
What historical figures do you most despise?: the scum of Wall Street CEOs of all kinds
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to remember everything
How would you like to die?: not knowing
What is your present state of mind?: a little anxious because the internet is not workig like it should
What is your motto?: fools rush in and get the best seats

I believe that nothing is irrelevant as long as it triggers a thought.

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