Proust Questionnaire: Jenny's answers

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On Sat, 24 Jul 10 22:09:51 UTC Jenny (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: heartbreak
Where would you like to live?: Closer to London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: health and unfading love which is reciprocated
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: self-deprecation, which I do all the time.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Belize from Angels in America, Chris Chambers from Stand By Me.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Maeve Gilmore, Walt Whitman, Rosa Parks.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: any woman whose grace and patience overcomes her desire to scream or run
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Unknown
Your favorite painter?: Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Louise Coady
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, insight
The quality you most admire in a woman?: grace, patience
Your favorite virtue?: grace
Your favorite occupation?: writing poetry or fiction
Who would you have liked to be?: Meryl Streep
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving to be loved.
What do you most value in your friends?: That they actually talk to me at all.
What is your principle defect?: I have absolutely no faith in myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not have gone to university
What would you like to be?: a mother
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: blossom, it means it is spring.
What is your favorite bird?: penguins are hilarious
Who are your favorite prose writers?: John Irving, Vladimir Nabokov
Who are your favorite poets?: Sharon Olds, Allen Ginsberg, Li-Young Lee, Terrance Hayes, Anne Sexton to name a few!
Who are your heroes in real life?: Any decent father figure
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Maeve Gilmore.
What are your favorite names?: Dominic, Joshua, Reinette, Polly
What is it you most dislike?: lonliness and illness
What historical figures do you most despise?: I'm not too keen on Hitler or the KKK
What event in military history do you most admire?: whenever soliders helped each other when injured or boosted each other's morale
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the ability to always make people laugh
How would you like to die?: very old and very loved
What is your present state of mind?: scared
What is your motto?: do what you can to make yourself happy

I wish one day I could take one of these tests and actually be enlightened to why I am the way I am. Maybe then I coul work to find a remedy.

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