Proust Questionnaire: JB's answers

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On Sat, 20 Jul 13 08:50:48 UTC JB (29) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: true loss
Where would you like to live?: Here, now; later, New York
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Cafes in a European square with Harris; breathing in the smell of damp soil in the forest
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: admitting mistake
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those that recognise heroism not as a characteristic, but as a moment of action catalysed by an empathic, irrational response to an extreme situation.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those that invent, and shift paradigms
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Nancy Drew
Your favorite painter?: Christan Nicholson, as a person, since I know no other painters
Your favorite musician?: Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty and ambition
The quality you most admire in a woman?: self-actualization
Your favorite virtue?: empathy
Your favorite occupation?: lying in the sun
Who would you have liked to be?: A bird
Your most marked characteristic?: effervescence
What do you most value in your friends?: kindness; curiosity underpinned by intelligence
What is your principle defect?: stubbornness driven by shame
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: losing Harris
What would you like to be?: an orator who helps illustrate the possibility of an evolutionary self and surroundings
What is your favorite color?: I always say Green, but that's vestigial from childhood. But I think green. Or probably a rich blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Those with a sweet perfume, and petals and pollen that tickles the nostrils
What is your favorite bird?: The heron, for its grace, precision, and beauty
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I quite like Jonathan Franzen
Who are your favorite poets?: A pursuit I'm afraid I lack
Who are your heroes in real life?: My grandma and Opoe, for their strength and selflessness
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: The Suffragettes
What are your favorite names?: Those with a flowing sound, like Julian
What is it you most dislike?: Maliciousness
What historical figures do you most despise?: Cruel ones
What event in military history do you most admire?: Disarmament
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: photographic memory
How would you like to die?: peacefully, with a view of trees
What is your present state of mind?: relaxed
What is your motto?: Do your best

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