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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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