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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:36:28 UTC Isaac (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Loving from a distance, but never at close quarters, without the tenderest embraces.
- Where would you like to live?
- In a country of colours; a country of infidels; a country that I would call my home and heart.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To celebrate and sing life and beauty along with the Universe.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Allowing my self to sift in a slew of boredoms and destructions.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Hamlet; Achilles; Robin Williams; Earl Hickey; 8 1/2.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Homer; Nick Drake; Chris Marlowe; Leo Tolstoy; Nathan Hale; Krystal Wills.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Krystal Wills; Patti Smith; Sara; Louis Brooks; Shane from The L Word.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- The Holy Virgin and Madonna and Dulcinea...
- Your favorite painter?
- Hieronymus Bosch, and perhaps van Gogh.
- Your favorite musician?
- Bob Dylan
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Will and the ability to carry life on a wing.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Aesthetics: and, a heart full of loving.
- Your favorite virtue?
- None really, none at all!
- Your favorite occupation?
- Watching TV; singing; playing my ol' gee-tar; listening to music; writing this and that; hangning out; smoking; (d)eluding myself.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Nobody: to live and be nobody but at the same time exist. To have set myself against life and been loved for all time.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My two brown eyes. And, for what it's worth, my heart and my soul, for the pain endured and the pain to be endured.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Relief and Understanding: all I really want is to be seen as I am: a nude poem.
- What is your principle defect?
- My lack of learning; my stupidity; the inability to act; carelessness; and my diseased ideas.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have loved and lost. To destroy myself.
- What would you like to be?
- A funny guy who goes out and sees the sun.
- What is your favorite color?
- I agree with Marcel. But I must add that I love shapes and hues and nomadism, too.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Krystal's: I hope she likes Hydrangeas!
- What is your favorite bird?
- The peacock.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Proust, obviously; Joyce; and, Borges.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Baudelaire and Whitman.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- I have none left.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- ---
- What are your favorite names?
- Puns
- What is it you most dislike?
- Bordeom, and wild children, and, wild mums.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hmm. Nobody. It is all natural law.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Civil
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