Proust Questionnaire: Guy Van Driessche's answers

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:46:13 UTC Guy Van Driessche (44) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: being totally alone, not loved or not missed by anybody
Where would you like to live?: Greece or Italy
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: being together with the woman of my dreams (who is utterly unavailable)
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to lazyness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Ischmael (Moby Dick), Stephen Dedalos, Gregor Samsa
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander, Newton, Darwin, Einstein
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: nurses, teachers, mothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Anna Karenina, Claudia Chauchat, Marion Bloom
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: honesty, courage
The quality you most admire in a woman?: empathy, passion
Your favorite virtue?: to be able to forgive, or even better: to be able not to judge others
Your favorite occupation?: listening to music, reading, and yes: sleeping
Who would you have liked to be?: the husband of Norma Jean Baker
Your most marked characteristic?: my loneliness
What do you most value in your friends?: patience, understanding
What is your principle defect?: not able to cope with life, being completely out of balance
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to live without ever knowing music
What would you like to be?: somebody who is loved by those who don't know me
What is your favorite color?: purple red orange
What is your favorite flower?: sunflower
What is your favorite bird?: the raven
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kafka, Joyce, Mann, and yes: Proust
Who are your favorite poets?: Pushkin, Shakespeare, Baudelaire
Who are your heroes in real life?: those one cannot see, that get everything done while we sleep
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: all the women behind the great men, the true "creatrixes" of the world as we know it
What are your favorite names?: Thomas, Zorah, Judex
What is it you most dislike?: the impulse of most men to compete, all the time, under all circumstances
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: the expeditions of Alexander
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to have wings like a bird and be able to fly
How would you like to die?: without knowing it
What is your present state of mind?: 40% calm and 45% depressed and 15% glad
What is your motto?: change and improve as long as you live

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