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On Sun, 23 Apr 17 15:43:42 UTC Jjt (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Unfulfilled promise or purpose
Where would you like to live?
Close to mountains and/or water. (Places: Bay Area, Vienna, Copenhagen, Melbourne, Vancouver)
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Stillness, fullness, companionship, wonder, making and taking in art, engaging in the exchange of ideas
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
overly high expectations
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those with paradoxes aplenty
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Kierkegaard, Emily Dickinson
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mother, my best friend, Heather Havrilesky, Chery Strayed
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
(same as with heroes) those with paradoxes aplenty
Your favorite painter?
Egon Schiele
Your favorite musician?
David Bowie
The quality you most admire in a man?
Kindness, intelligence, imagination
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Kindness, intelligence, imagination
Your favorite virtue?
Caring and daring to care
Your favorite occupation?
Writing, thinking
Who would you have liked to be?
Good at science too
Your most marked characteristic?
Thoughtfulness
What do you most value in your friends?
Care and competence
What is your principle defect?
Inability to process failure or setbacks
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not discovering writing
What would you like to be?
To be a thinker of worthwhile thoughts and to be of use
What is your favorite color?
Lavender; forest green
What is your favorite flower?
Hydrangea, peony, daisy
What is your favorite bird?
penguin
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Joan Didion, Soren Kierkegaard, Robert Hass
Who are your favorite poets?
John Donne, Nelson, Rankine, Hass, Emily Dickinson, Max Ritvo, Monica Youn
Who are your heroes in real life?
Donne, Kierkegaard, John and Hank Green
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Arendt, perhaps
What are your favorite names?
Talulah, Imogen, Joshua
What is it you most dislike?
Helplessness
What historical figures do you most despise?
insert choice of genocidal despot
What event in military history do you most admire?
None whatsoever
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Eidetic memory
How would you like to die?
With stillness
What is your present state of mind?
Displeased at my procrastination on a piece of writing
What is your motto?
Do not squander your life

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