Proust Questionnaire: James La Salandra's answers

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On Wed, 12 Jan 11 20:54:36 UTC James La Salandra (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose a child.
Where would you like to live?: In a rural area somewhere in the midwest U.S.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love and be loved, to experience artistic and natural beauty, and to be fatted upon fine food and drink.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My reluctance to follow through.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who strive to become complete expressions of human potential.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Buddha, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mark Twain, Gandhi, Carl Sagan
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Single mothers who succeed, against the odds, at raising their children to be healthy human beings.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The reluctant participant whose potential for strength is realized.
Your favorite painter?: Vincent van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: Patience
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Tenderness
Your favorite virtue?: Integrity
Your favorite occupation?: Visionary
Who would you have liked to be?: Leonardo Da Vinci
Your most marked characteristic?: Intensity.
What do you most value in your friends?: Undestanding.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of faith in my own abilities.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never lived at all.
What would you like to be?: A complete expression of my Self.
What is your favorite color?: Electric blue
What is your favorite flower?: Wildflowers
What is your favorite bird?: The grackle.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Marcel Proust, Frank Herbert, Herman Hess, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury
Who are your favorite poets?: William Shakespeare, Dorothy Parker, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman
Who are your heroes in real life?: Only myself.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: -
What are your favorite names?: Jonathan, Elizabeth, Corben, Miriam, Caleb,
What is it you most dislike?: My own shortcomings.
What historical figures do you most despise?: -
What event in military history do you most admire?: The battle at Thermopylae
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence
How would you like to die?: Loved and without regret.
What is your present state of mind?: Active, aware, exited, yet calm.
What is your motto?: "Ferrum in ventulus non extundo" Iron is not forged in the breeze.

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