Proust Questionnaire: Jacob Richardson's answers

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On Sat, 28 May 11 01:36:19 UTC Jacob Richardson (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Detatched unfufillment.
Where would you like to live?: London.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Living in vicinity of those I find myself in, in total comfort and engagement.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Ignorant complacency.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The embodied representatives of the disaffected dissidents.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, Dr. King, Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, FDR, Bertrand Russell, Thomas Paine.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The ones who show the meaning of the beauty of existence.
Your favorite painter?: Picasso, Dali, van Gogh, Francis Bacon, and the American abstract expressionists.
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan, Lennon/McCartney, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Black Francis, Kurt Cobain, Beethoven, Philip Glass.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Loving intelligence.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, philosophizing, fascinating education, hearing music and playing it.
Who would you have liked to be?: I will be.
What is your principle defect?: Procrastination.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have been a child of conventional parenthood.
What is your favorite bird?: All those that I can take minutes to observe in their nature.
Who are your favorite poets?: Philip Larkin, William Blake, e.e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Allen Ginsberg.
What is it you most dislike?: Bigotry and oppression.
What historical figures do you most despise?: The anti-human justifiers of hierarchies and anti-intellectual prejudices.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The influence to inspire.
How would you like to die?: Never, very old or heroically.

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