Proust Questionnaire: Isla's answers

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On Mon, 17 Apr 17 17:51:45 UTC Isla (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: When reaching the bottom of the jar of peanut butter.
Where would you like to live?: In utter ignorance.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Snagging the last Klondike bar.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My ability to mercilessly tease those less intelligent than myself.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Men who are strong enough to realize when they need help.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Any that kick ass and take names.
Your favorite painter?: Probably Van Gogh.
Your favorite musician?: Dexter Holland
The quality you most admire in a man?: A sense of humor.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Righteous indignation.
Your favorite virtue?: Hope.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, writing, and more writing.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone with more money.
Your most marked characteristic?: My sarcasm.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty.
What is your principle defect?: My allergy to shellfish.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Dying before cashing in a winning lotto slip.
What would you like to be?: Safe and secure. Loved, maybe.
What is your favorite color?: White. Or is that a shade?
What is your favorite flower?: They're pretty much all daisies to me. So, a daisy.
What is your favorite bird?: The one that knocks on my window at 4 am.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway and Thoreau.
Who are your favorite poets?: Bukowski. Dorothy Parker.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mom and brother.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Too many to name.
What are your favorite names?: Carrick.
What is it you most dislike?: Self-importance.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Any that mucked up things for me now.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I am not a historian.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: X-ray vision.
How would you like to die?: Happy.
What is your present state of mind?: Contemplative, with a smidgeon of mockery.
What is your motto?: Do as I say, not as I do.

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