Proust Questionnaire: Jared Oswald's answers

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On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:55:53 UTC Jared Oswald (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Feeling desperation while living in isolation.
Where would you like to live?: On a clean planet.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be in company of those who enrich my heart, with an endless supply of literature, water, plants, and natural weather. No religion please.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Self-indulgence.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are emotional, analytical, and introspective.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Terrence McKenna, Albert Camus.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Ayn Rand, my grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are emotional, analytical, and introspective.
Your favorite painter?: Sean.
Your favorite musician?: Brian Eno.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Tolerance.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Creativity.
Your favorite virtue?: Simplicity.
Your favorite occupation?: Listening.
Your most marked characteristic?: I'm always split between two opposites of a lanky spectrum.
What do you most value in your friends?: Their intellect.
What is your principle defect?: Self-pity.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never once be able to see the stars at night.
What would you like to be?: Nothing more than myself, with a few adjustments.
What is your favorite color?: The colors in my mind.
What is your favorite flower?: The Orchid.
What is your favorite bird?: Any bird attached to the phrase "of paradise"
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Annie Proulx and Albert Camus.
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath, Kahil Gibran
What are your favorite names?: Sebastian, Nicolas, Gwen
What is it you most dislike?: Misunderstandings of sorts.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: ...
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I wish to be more compatible.
How would you like to die?: Being back with my roots.
What is your present state of mind?: My mind is focusing on my physical state, hunger.
What is your motto?: Keep on keeping on.

My mind has always been split between two fields of thinking. Those who think without any misteps in logic and those who find clarity in all that will never be seen.

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