Proust Questionnaire: Guenther's answers

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On Tue, 22 Dec 15 11:43:18 UTC Guenther answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To live in a world in the control of the unworthy and weak
Where would you like to live?: In a world where strength rules, and the weak are crushed
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Fine wine, women, and music
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Certainly gluttony, if that can be a fault.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Jay Gatsby, Kurtz, Sherlock Holmes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Hitler, Stalin, Martin Luther. Their approaches may have been flawed, but my word! How charismatic they were!
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Eva Peron. A strong woman beloved by her people. Cleopatra - very cunning and sneaky.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The ones who know how to use their wiles to their advantage
Your favorite painter?: High Renaissance painters, like Raphael, Michelangelo, and Signorelli
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven, Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: Strength, intelligence, cunning
The quality you most admire in a woman?: I have answered this already - strength, cunning. This grows tedious
Your favorite virtue?: Patience
Your favorite occupation?: Manipulating the masses to achieve my end goals - whatever they may be this week
Who would you have liked to be?: I am who I have always wanted to be
Your most marked characteristic?: Some would say a cruel streak. I don't see it as cruel; it is more practical.
What do you most value in your friends?: Friends is a subjective term. I prefer "associates" - and those must be loyal and unquestioning.
What is your principle defect?: I wouldn't know. I don't have defects.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Failing in my mission to cleanse the world of the unworthy
What would you like to be?: Myself - I am perfect as is.
What is your favorite color?: Gray
What is your favorite flower?: Sunflower
What is your favorite bird?: Crane
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Conrad, Fitzgerald, Hemingway
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Browning, Baudelaire
Who are your heroes in real life?: This is getting ridiculous. I have answered this - Hitler, Stalin, all the charismatic leaders of history
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: ... Fine. I'll continue playing. Cleopatra, Eva Peron.
What are your favorite names?: The one I'm currently using.
What is it you most dislike?: Weak, mewling, cowardly people without the mettle to do what needs to be done.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Ghandi
What event in military history do you most admire?: Kristallnacht
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I have many natural gifts; I cannot think of anything else I need.
How would you like to die?: Die? I will never die.
What is your present state of mind?: Mild annoyance at answering these ridiculous questions repeatedly
What is your motto?: Work will set you free.

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