Proust Questionnaire: Godfrey's answers

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On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:04:16 UTC Godfrey (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Boredom
Where would you like to live?: The 19th Century
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: There is one person with whom I believe I could have earthly happiness, so, I suppose, her.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Impetusness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who die or suffer gloriously
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Revolutionaries and Despots
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women of passion and power
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Warriors who disregard femininity for the sake of service
Your favorite painter?: Carravagio or Jacques-Louis David
Your favorite musician?: Wagner
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Lovingness and intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Honor
Your favorite occupation?: Discourse
Who would you have liked to be?: Nevskii would have been fun
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving for and hatred of solitude
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: weakness of will
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be ignorant
What would you like to be?: Myself, but stronger
What is your favorite color?: Green. This one deserves a one-word answer
What is your favorite flower?: I like Proust's answer
What is your favorite bird?: The albatross
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hesse and (though a playwrite) Beckett
Who are your favorite poets?: Torquato Tasso and John Milton
Who are your heroes in real life?: Uncle Mike, Dan DeLong
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: I have so many
What is it you most dislike?: Ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?: None of them
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Defence of Leningrad
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm and strength of will
How would you like to die?: I'd rather like not to
What is your present state of mind?: eh, consumed by this pointless distraction
What is your motto?: None

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