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On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:40:34 UTC Jeux answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To resort to pharmaceutical remedies
Where would you like to live?
The Metropolis
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To never become jaded to earth; to always see its beauties
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Humility
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Henry Miller, Malone
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Louis XIV
Your favorite painter?
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Vincent van Gogh
Your favorite musician?
Prokofiev, Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence, consideration
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, dreaming and writing verse
Who would you have liked to be?
Queen Victoria
Your most marked characteristic?
A cynicism shrouded in mystery
What do you most value in your friends?
Understanding
What is your principle defect?
Aversion to other human beings
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
The inability to think freely
What would you like to be?
A person who can be happily miserable and miserably happy
What is your favorite color?
The shade of black
What is your favorite flower?
Peonies or roses
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Henry Miller, Edgar Allen Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who are your favorite poets?
T. S. Eliot, John Keats, Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?
professors
What are your favorite names?
Those that fit the persons
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A physiological talent like dancing or singing
How would you like to die?
With a bibliography that will suffice to preserve my life
What is your present state of mind?
Inconstant

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