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On Sun, 23 Oct 16 23:30:08 UTC J.H. answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be forced to do work that you have no interest in.
- Where would you like to live?
- Northern Europe, or wherever it's eternally cold
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Learning science, reading and writing
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Indecisiveness and inaction
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- The genii and those that sacrifice something great
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Napoleon, Einstein, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Plato, abd Hemingway
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- An ordinary woman leading a life of intelligence and creativity
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- The genii and those that sacrifice something great
- Your favorite painter?
- Van Gogh and Théodore Géricault
- Your favorite musician?
- Rachmaninov and Glass
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence and tenderness
- Your favorite virtue?
- Loyalty
- Your favorite occupation?
- Science, reading, and writing
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Myself two minutes in the future
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Coldness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Intelligence
- What is your principle defect?
- Lack of caring for things that I cannot help but feel are worthless
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To lose the ability to fall in love
- What would you like to be?
- Myself
- What is your favorite color?
- Purple and yellow, but I'm also partial to dark green, blue, and red
- What is your favorite flower?
- Sunflower
- What is your favorite bird?
- Dodo
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Marcel Proust, Alasdair Gray, etc.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My teachers
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Marie Curie
- What are your favorite names?
- My own, but I'm also partial to Cornelius
- What is it you most dislike?
- stupidity
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler, McCarthy, anyone who has started an unjust war
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The Battle of Waterloo
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The ability to memorize any written passage by reading it once
- How would you like to die?
- Saving someone's life
- What is your present state of mind?
- Calm
- What is your motto?
- Timendi causa est nescira--ignorance is the cause of fear
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