Proust Questionnaire: Jet Jackson's answers

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On Tue, 14 Aug 12 23:02:35 UTC Jet Jackson (92) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be trapped in a suburban shopping mall with no end in sight
Where would you like to live?: on a bluff overlooking a large body of water
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: I'm with Proust but any kind of theatre will do
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: crankiness in old age and illness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: tricksters...Bill Murray in Ghost Busters and Robertson Davis' craggy outsiders
Who are your favorite characters in history?: fabulous women in fabulous dress who died in their beds
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: fabulous women dressed very simply
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: smart women who manage to behave relatively well or who evade arrest/condemnation when they don't
Your favorite painter?: today...Vermeer...no, Jasper Johns
Your favorite musician?: at the moment, Paul Simon
The quality you most admire in a man?: a commitment to the adage "do no harm"
The quality you most admire in a woman?: a willingness to risk doing harm in order to do good
Your favorite virtue?: I'm not sure what a virtue is.
Your favorite occupation?: learning
Who would you have liked to be?: Tina Turner
Your most marked characteristic?: awkwardness, physical and social
What do you most value in your friends?: discernment without judgement
What is your principle defect?: reluctance to acknowledge my defects
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: for my child to die before I do
What would you like to be?: a dancer
What is your favorite color?: I like them all
What is your favorite flower?: any flower at the last moment of its prime
What is your favorite bird?: martin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: whatever one I'm reading
Who are your favorite poets?: right now, a dead Danish woman whose name I can's spell
Who are your heroes in real life?: single women in middle of life or old age who manage to laugh and sing often
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Coco Chanel, Colette, Josephine Baker
What are your favorite names?: Doug
What is it you most dislike?: being asked questions I can't answer
What historical figures do you most despise?: bullies
What event in military history do you most admire?: my dad's service in WW II
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to dance
How would you like to die?: by an open window in a house on a bluff overlooking a large body of water
What is your present state of mind?: healthy and pleasurable apprehension
What is your motto?: whatever

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