Proust Questionnaire: Greg Lytle's answers

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On Mon, 17 May 10 00:32:06 +0000 Greg Lytle (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose a loved one
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere warm and near a body of water OR somewhere cold and isolated in woods
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: For every day to feel like how Friday nights and Sunday afternoons do
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Alcohol, pessimism, and apathy
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Joel Barish, Henry Chinaski, Han Solo, Dante Hicks
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, George S. Patton, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Darwin
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Any woman who doesn't fall into the stay at home with the kids trap
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Ellen Ripley, Amelie Poulain, Sarah Connor, Eowyn, Julia (Cowboy Bebop)
Your favorite painter?: HR Giger
Your favorite musician?: Miles Davis
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty
Your favorite virtue?: Creativity
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: John Lennon
Your most marked characteristic?: Patience
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty
What is your principle defect?: Giving in to compulsions
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To die alone
What would you like to be?: A married professional writer
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Rose
What is your favorite bird?: Penguin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Jerry Holkins, David Lynch, Kevin Smith
Who are your favorite poets?: Charles Bukowski
Who are your heroes in real life?: Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Dawkins, Jeremy Parish, Stephen King, Lester Bangs, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Margaret Sanger, Valerie Solanas, Nico
What are your favorite names?: Julia, Amelie
What is it you most dislike?: Loneliness
What historical figures do you most despise?: Other than the obvious ones like Hitler, I would have to say any religiously motivated committer of violence
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle Of The Bulge, for the determination of the surrounded Americans and Patton's logistical miracle to come to their aid
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Musical skill
How would you like to die?: Listening to 'Kind Of Blue' while very, very stoned and drunk
What is your present state of mind?: Melancholy and wistfulness
What is your motto?: Life at best is bittersweet

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