Proust Questionnaire: Harold E. Leighton's answers

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On Sat, 31 May 14 17:45:57 UTC Harold E. Leighton (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Misunderstanding & unchangeability. Love like soldiers, entrenched. Hate like ice.
Where would you like to live?: In a place all my own, sincerely.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Freedom of spirit. Creativity. Sunlight and paper and coffee. Love. Water. Places to travel.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Rich foods, wine, and naps with my puppy.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Cheri. Puss in Boots. The rascal hero anti-hero scoundrel. The rotten pet.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: John Donne, Galileo, Artemesia Gentileshi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Tina Fey, my grandmother, a woman with Dot Hooper's odd sense of humor.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The torn and healed, the pure and unpure, the comedienne in dirty shoes, the woman who has misplaced part of herself in a house or a man or a child, en medias res. Hope after the beautiful things are destroyed.
Your favorite painter?: Gauguin
Your favorite musician?: Graham Coxon
The quality you most admire in a man?: Taking Polonius's advice: to thine own self be true.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Silence.
Your favorite virtue?: Patience
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, in a cosy place, without having to think of anything but my own work.
Who would you have liked to be?: A man. I love being a woman, but I think I would've liked to have balls. Actual balls.
Your most marked characteristic?: A dark, dry sense of humor.
What do you most value in your friends?: Consistency.
What is your principle defect?: Belief in the goodness of other people. This is a failing. People are generally malignant assholes.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Conforming to the ideals of those around me.
What would you like to be?: Free. Free of judgment, of restraint, of debt, of everything. I want to run naked in a damn field of wildflowers and not give one fuck for anything.
What is your favorite color?: Orange.
What is your favorite flower?: Something highly scented, a creeper. A drowsy-headed rose bush, frizzled by the sun and bees. Something invading a wall or slowly cracking the weakest boards of a fence. A beautiful thing that clings, despite the environment.
What is your favorite bird?: The crow. Why can't a crow be beautiful? First, it's the encroaching on picnic space....
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Prose writers? Will Lorrie Moore count?
Who are your favorite poets?: Eh. I don't read poetry much anymore.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I don't have heroes.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: That Borga trick, the pope's daughter.
What are your favorite names?: I do not play this game well. I don't know.
What is it you most dislike?: Sloth. Artifice. Stupidity. Generally those three things bundled together with a thin veil of charity on top.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The cunning and affable ability to convince dumb people to shut up.
How would you like to die?: Rich and old, in the countryside. Dotty as an old deaf nanny goat and inexplicably happy.
What is your present state of mind?: Tired
What is your motto?: It's all true. Every bit of it. Just think on that, will you?

God , no.

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