Proust Questionnaire: Gemn 's answers

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On Sun, 08 Jan 17 18:39:29 UTC Gemn answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Saying goodbye to a pet
Where would you like to live?: Australia
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Sitting in Raffles Singapore watching the world happen around me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Judging others whilst knowingly being ignorant to my own
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Sherlock Holmes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Arthur Conan Doyle, Alan Turing, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking, Dr Jonas Salk
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Tammi Terrell, Frida Kahlo, Indira Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Amelia Earhart, Margaret Thatcher, my Mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Professor McGonagoll
Your favorite painter?: Titian
Your favorite musician?: Debussy
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intellect, humility, decency, generosity of spirit, authenticity, sincerity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intellect, humility, decency, generosity of spirit, authenticity, sincerity
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Learning
Who would you have liked to be?: Neurologist
Your most marked characteristic?: Curiousity and the compulsion to understand everything that interests me
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness, understanding and tolerance. Honesty and integrity
What is your principle defect?: Inability to tolerate low intellect or ignorance.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have lived a life that was in any way different to the one I have
What would you like to be?: Myself but without so many of my flaws
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Protea
What is your favorite bird?: Kookaburra
Who are your favorite prose writers?: George RR Martin, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Hardy
Who are your favorite poets?: T.S. Elliott, Edgar Allen Poe, Dante
Who are your heroes in real life?: David Bowie, Alex Ferguson, Stan Lee, Stephen Hawking, my paternal Grandfather
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Anne Boleyn
What are your favorite names?: Edward, Oliver, Olivia, India, Boris
What is it you most dislike?: Failure. Hypocrisy. Dishonesty
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pontius Pilate
What event in military history do you most admire?: The amazing triumph of the enigma code breakers at Bletchley
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to comprehend absolutely everything in life
How would you like to die?: In my sleep at a grand old age
What is your present state of mind?: Somewhat dismayed at the realisation that I'm nowhere near as well balanced as I would like to believe
What is your motto?: Don't deny the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict

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