Proust Questionnaire: Greg's answers

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On Sun, 24 Apr 11 11:44:01 UTC Greg (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to expect a greater life after this one
Where would you like to live?: in the moment
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: freedom from want
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: caution
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Mara
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Genghis Khan, Tupac Amaru, Elizabeth Bathory, Charles Darwin, Haile Selassie
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I make a point of not having real heroes
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: the Daughters of Zelophehad
Your favorite painter?: Otto Dix
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: self-awareness, honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: self-assuredness, patience
Your favorite virtue?: skepticism
Your favorite occupation?: debate
Who would you have liked to be?: myself, except rich and talented
Your most marked characteristic?: caution to a fault
What do you most value in your friends?: their respect
What is your principle defect?: caution
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be raised beligerent or easily satisfied
What would you like to be?: relaxed
What is your favorite color?: none in particular
What is your favorite flower?: those not cut from their tree
What is your favorite bird?: any owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Cormac McCarthy
Who are your favorite poets?: John Keats, Ezra Pound, Khalil Gibran
Who are your heroes in real life?: I don't believe in heroes
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Assata Shakur is welcome here
What are your favorite names?: there is nothing in a name
What is it you most dislike?: small talk, ambition
What historical figures do you most despise?: I see little value in hating the dead
What event in military history do you most admire?: I see little to be tolerated, much less admired
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the ability to draw and paint
How would you like to die?: overdosing in the Kalahari, and being scavenged by lions
What is your present state of mind?: desperately apprehensive

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