Proust Questionnaire: Jackson8471's answers

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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:32:23 UTC Jackson8471 (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be seperated from my wife.
Where would you like to live?: In Ireland, or Germany.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Making my wife happy, and being a good man.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness, habit, and boredom.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: My heroes have always been jerks.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: General Patton, Groucho Marx, Socrates
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My wife.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are the foils, or consciences of jerks.
Your favorite painter?: da Vinci.
Your favorite musician?: Isaac Watts
The quality you most admire in a man?: Courage, and the sense to better the things around him.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength and patience.
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty.
Your favorite occupation?: Spending time with my wife, writing, drawing doodles.
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked to be Paul Newman.
Your most marked characteristic?: A deep and abiding sense of truth, and the need to voice it.
What do you most value in your friends?: Humor.
What is your principle defect?: An open and questioning mind that is easily overwhelmed.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my family, my wife, and the people I love.
What would you like to be?: I would like to be a man of honor and respect.
What is your favorite color?: Green, and all of its shades.
What is your favorite flower?: Calla Lilly.
What is your favorite bird?: The African Gray parrot.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Tom Wolfe.
Who are your favorite poets?: Rostand.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My Dad, General Patton, etc.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Penelope.
What are your favorite names?: Nia Bree.
What is it you most dislike?: My disregard for my own shortcomings.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Any capable of great betrayal or deceit.
What event in military history do you most admire?: My family's history of service.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Determination.
How would you like to die?: In a manner that benefits those that I love.
What is your present state of mind?: Curiosity at the result of reading about myself.
What is your motto?: Any Time, Any Place

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