Proust Questionnaire: Jan's answers

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On Tue, 11 Jan 11 04:29:24 UTC Jan (55) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being depresssed.
Where would you like to live?: Where I live now, because it's my home.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be with my soul mate.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I have none.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Tsar Nicholas 2nd, Shakespeare, Elizabeth the 1st, Marie Antionette
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Any man who really understands women (they are out there, trust me)
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Any who are morally strong and realistic, with out being hard.
Your favorite painter?: Frederick Morgan
Your favorite musician?: Schubert
The quality you most admire in a man?: Content of Character
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The ability to laugh at herself
Your favorite virtue?: Being Noble
Your favorite occupation?: Reading Biography's
Who would you have liked to be?: A Ballet Dancer
Your most marked characteristic?: Needing attention
What do you most value in your friends?: The ability to laugh very much.
What is your principle defect?: I am too empathetic
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not to be able to have children.
What would you like to be?: A ballerina
What is your favorite color?: all colors on an artist palette
What is your favorite flower?: Casablanca Lily
What is your favorite bird?: Red winged mocking bird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Laurance Durrell, E.M Forrester,
Who are your favorite poets?: Robert Louis Stephenson, Robert Burns, Shelly, Wordsworth
Who are your heroes in real life?: The teachers who gave me a love of the written word.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any woman who ruled over men.
What are your favorite names?: Alice, Mark Andrew
What is it you most dislike?: Knowing that you have hurt your child by your own actions.
What historical figures do you most despise?: HItler
What event in military history do you most admire?: D-Day 1944
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power and the ability to think fast.
How would you like to die?: Short illness to give me time to prepare.
What is your present state of mind?: Worry.
What is your motto?: "I am hurt, but am not slain, I will lie me down and bleed a while and rise to strike again" St. Bartons Ode

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