Proust Questionnaire: Horace pluck's answers

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On Sun, 02 Oct 16 12:25:39 UTC Horace pluck (54) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to bury your own child
Where would you like to live?: somewhere different every season
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to live peacefully and in peace, in easy reach of great books and fine coffee
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: over consumption of claret and pork
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: charlie parker and his two sidekicks
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ned Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Churchill
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my beloved sister Libby
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: don't know any
Your favorite painter?: Aaron sidorenko
Your favorite musician?: Jimmy Page or Frederick Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honest and true loyalty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: gentle care
Your favorite virtue?: honesty
Your favorite occupation?: reading, dreaming, planning, travelling
Who would you have liked to be?: Ned Lawrence
Your most marked characteristic?: Judgement of character
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty and honesty
What is your principle defect?: weak willed and shy
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to lose ones children
What would you like to be?: Fit, healthy, well read
What is your favorite color?: red
What is your favorite flower?: lily
What is your favorite bird?: heron
Who are your favorite prose writers?: faulks, connolly, st aubyn
Who are your favorite poets?: thomas, frost, plath, milligan
Who are your heroes in real life?: Ned lawrence, terry wogan
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Gertrude bell
What are your favorite names?: Jesus and mohamad
What is it you most dislike?: liars and Brussels sprouts
What historical figures do you most despise?: hitler, Blair and obama
What event in military history do you most admire?: the end of the war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to make others laugh
How would you like to die?: asleep in bed
What is your present state of mind?: balanced and curious
What is your motto?: chacun a son poisson

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