Proust Questionnaire: George Owers's answers

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On Sat, 31 Jul 10 02:09:40 UTC George Owers (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be blinded and therefore unable to read
Where would you like to live?: On a remote Scottish island in a log cabin
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To lived animated by religious, political or moral purpose
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a life of blissful, heedless hedonistic ignorance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Either George Smiley from the John Le Carre novels, or Victor Laszlo, the resistance leader in Casablanca
Who are your favorite characters in history?: William Hazlitt, Keir Hardie, Thomas Paine, Catherine Macaulay, John Lilburne, Major John Cartwright, Spartacus, Karl Marx, Charles Fox, Clement Attlee
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The same as my favourite real life heroes: people acting with integrity and strength of character despite difficult circumstances
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Sarah Woodruff from 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', Jane Eyre
Your favorite painter?: Henri Rousseau
Your favorite musician?: Rachmaninov
The quality you most admire in a man?: Common human decency and empathy
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Common human decency and empathy
Your favorite virtue?: Integrity, loyalty
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, listening to records, watching old films, drinking
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone with unshakeable religious faith, strong, untarnished political conviction, and the courage to risk his life for both
Your most marked characteristic?: Hatred of brownnosing and subservience
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Arrogance, aloofness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never have my affection/love for another person reciprocated
What would you like to be?: Someone with integrity who is willing to stick to his principles despite adverse consequences
What is your favorite color?: Emerald green
What is your favorite flower?: Lilies
What is your favorite bird?: Swan
Who are your favorite prose writers?: George Orwell, William Hazlitt, Jonathan Swift
Who are your favorite poets?: Dylan Thomas, WH Auden and John Betjeman
Who are your heroes in real life?: Paul Rusesabagina, Hugo Chavez, Clive Stafford Smith
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Mary Wollstonecraft, Catherine Macauley, Olympe de Gouges, Marie de Gournay
What are your favorite names?: Edwyn, Roseanna, George
What is it you most dislike?: People who are capricious or disloyal; people who brown-nose and bullshit
What historical figures do you most despise?: Aside from the obvious (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot etc): Margaret Thatcher, William Pitt the Younger, Marshal Petain
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle of Thermoplyae or the Battle of Britain
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Either sexual magnetism or musical ability
How would you like to die?: In the service of a just cause
What is your present state of mind?: Disillusionment
What is your motto?: Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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