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On Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:26:27 UTC Jan answered the Proust Questionnaire:
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Worry.
- Where would you like to live?
- Paris would be nice.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Having plenty to read, plenty of time for reading, and reading in the company of my dogs.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
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- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Sherlock Holmes, Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennett
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Thomas Jefferson, Voltaire, Erasmus of Rotterdam, not necessarily in that order
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Women who work hard, expect much of themselves, and don't make excuses
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- (included in "favorite heroes," above)
- Your favorite painter?
- Daumier, Manet, Courot
- Your favorite musician?
- Handel, Brahms
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- intelligence and humor
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- independence, intelligence, and humor
- Your favorite virtue?
- dependability
- Your favorite occupation?
- reading, gardening
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I enjoy being the person I am.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- stubbornness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- loyalty and reliability
- What is your principle defect?
- procrastination
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Not to have been surrounded by encouraging, loving people.
- What would you like to be?
- taller and thinner.
- What is your favorite color?
- cobalt blue
- What is your favorite flower?
- daffodils or turk's-cap lilies
- What is your favorite bird?
- indigo bunting
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Virginia Woolf
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- people who work hard to overcome obstacles
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
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- What are your favorite names?
- William Barry, David, Sadie, Sophie, Pickett, Polly
- What is it you most dislike?
- humidity
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- why waste effort in despising dead people?
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- D-Day Invasion
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- the ability to play the violin well
- How would you like to die?
- in my sleep, in full possession of my faculties, sometime during my 90s.
- What is your present state of mind?
- happy and contented
- What is your motto?
- "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
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