Proust Questionnaire: Inkie's answers

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On Sat, 28 May 11 08:39:29 UTC Inkie (60) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To live without hope
Where would you like to live?: Right where I am: one only makes yourself happy
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To beable to enjoy my life fully, to use my opportunities and to have beautiful things aroung me, also those in nature and in music
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Not having something to read or to do
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Jack in the beanstalk - he overpower the gaint with intelligence
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Honibal, Joan of Arc, but why limit oneself to only a few?
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Emily Hobhouse. Mari Curie - may of those who improved life and health
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Tinkerbel: she flies wherever she wants to and waves het magic wand! Sleeping beauty: she had a lot of fun!
Your favorite painter?: William Kentridge - he never stops amazing me with his ingenuity
Your favorite musician?: Mozart, Bach, Schuman and a few modern composers,
The quality you most admire in a man?: Ability to acknowledge mistakes and to liste to reason
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Ability to do many things equally well, multi-tasking and not have to boast about it
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Creating
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself: this is the singular chance I have to be me in any case
Your most marked characteristic?: Servitude, patience
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty
What is your principle defect?: I am too direct
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not to partake fully in what life brings
What would you like to be?: Painfree and healthy
What is your favorite color?: Purple, pink, blue, but any colour at any given time may be best at some moment!
What is your favorite flower?: Blushing bride
What is your favorite bird?: Ha-de-da
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Why have a favourite - there are so many that one may read and enjoy!
Who are your favorite poets?: There are so many - I don't want to read only one!
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mandela - he advocates peace
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Esther - she saved an entire nation
What are your favorite names?: Silly question
What is it you most dislike?: Dishonesty and loud noise, so-called modern music...
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler?
What event in military history do you most admire?: Peace
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Creativity
How would you like to die?: In peace
What is your present state of mind?: Preoccupied
What is your motto?: Do what you want to do as soon as you are able to so that you may do more tomorrow

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