Proust Questionnaire: Jeremy Heintz's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jan 16 17:57:23 UTC Jeremy Heintz (39) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be without hope.
Where would you like to live?: In a Chateau on an Alpine meadow.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Contentment in self and others.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Hedonistic indulgence.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those with the eternal struggle of good and bad within themselves who triumph.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, Manfred Von Richthofen.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Hardworking mother's.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Any women who hold their own.
Your favorite painter?: Monet.
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, self determination.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Comforting, kindness.
Your favorite virtue?: Generosity.
Your favorite occupation?: Laughing, dancing the night away.
Who would you have liked to be?: Neil Armstrong.
Your most marked characteristic?: My love of life.
What do you most value in your friends?: Laughter.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of empathy.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have loved.
What would you like to be?: Thought of as a decent human being.
What is your favorite color?: Depends on mood.
What is your favorite flower?: Soft and sweet, like your first loves hair in the summer breeze.
What is your favorite bird?: Any that don't try to attack me.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Twain.
Who are your favorite poets?: Frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: Whomever lives life as they see fit.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Dick Trickle, Plenty O'Toole, Rusty Shackleford.
What is it you most dislike?: Tardiness.
What historical figures do you most despise?: I don't hate anyone whom I have not physically met.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The last gentlemen of modern war, the Knights of the air, World War I's first fighter pilots.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The gift of creative writing.
How would you like to die?: A better man than I am today, on my own terms.
What is your present state of mind?: Curiosity as to when this will end.
What is your motto?: Better to die on your back than to live on your knees.

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