Proust Questionnaire: Gtergab's answers

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On Fri, 20 Jun 14 07:20:37 UTC Gtergab (50) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: allowing my nearest to suffer while I could do something to prevent
Where would you like to live?: In Armenia, in a house with garden pretty close to Yerevan
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be able to write all the novels I want to in the remaining time
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a life deprived of the works of genius
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The writers who wrote them
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Simon who carried the cross of Christ; the populaces who died without leaving a trace
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: This is not public
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The women from my novel
Your favorite painter?: Shagall
Your favorite musician?: Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, moral sense
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness, naturalness, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: the universal virtues
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, and writing prose
Who would you have liked to be?: a poet
Your most marked characteristic?: niceness for outsiders; combination of systematic and chaotic thinking from inside
What do you most value in your friends?: If they feel their limitations and are nice and helpful
What is your principle defect?: health; lack of knowledge/understanding of math and physics; the insufficiency of time
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not having a happy childhood; if my parents were arrested or persecuted while I was a child
What would you like to be?: Today I would like to be ten years younger but with this understanding of things
What is your favorite color?: The Roshar test
What is your favorite flower?: arma
What is your favorite bird?: eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hrant Matevossyan, Faulkner, Joyce, Proust
Who are your favorite poets?: too many to enumerate, Marina Tsvetaeva stands alone
Who are your heroes in real life?: I don't seem to see such; To an extent, Yeltsyn, Starovoytova, Sakharov...
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: ???
What are your favorite names?: I have names that I don't like, otherwise I am fine with names
What is it you most dislike?: Armenia's anti-development (and Russia's)
What historical figures do you most despise?: Most of those who shed blood
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Number crunching fast; musical memory; painting capacity more than I have
How would you like to die?: calmly, without suffering, fast and at terms with myself
What is your present state of mind?: dissonance because I have to go to work instead of answering these questions
What is your motto?: it seems that in recent times it is 'management'

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