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On Tue, 24 Aug 10 01:42:52 UTC Jo (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To live an unfulfilling life
- Where would you like to live?
- In a land of rational empiricists
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To be with those I love and to have access to arts, culture, travel, and science
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- My intellect
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those who defy social mores of their time, including Dorian Gray
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Augustine, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, David Hume, Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Rosalind Franklin, Ayn Rand, Richard Dawkins
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Those who are educated, outspoken, and passionate and/or my mom
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Edna Pontellier from The Awakening by Kate Chopin then maybe Hester Prynne
- Your favorite painter?
- Paul Cezanne
- Your favorite musician?
- John Lennon
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence, morality, understanding
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Curiousity, independence, athleticism
- Your favorite virtue?
- Honesty
- Your favorite occupation?
- Day dreaming
- Who would you have liked to be?
- A genetic clone of myself born 50 years after my birth
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My height
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Respect
- What is your principle defect?
- Forgiveness
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Never to have loved
- What would you like to be?
- Myself
- What is your favorite color?
- Turquoise
- What is your favorite flower?
- An orchid
- What is your favorite bird?
- Falcon or a swan
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- I'm not familiar with enough prose writers to choose favorites, yet.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Frost, Eliot, and Goethe
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My teachers
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Dolly Madison, Marie Currie, Rosalind Franklin, Anne Frank
- What are your favorite names?
- Too embarrassing and would identify me
- What is it you most dislike?
- Intolerance and Ignorance
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler and Jefferson Davis
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The Battle of Yorktown and The Battle of Britain
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Ability to bend space/time
- How would you like to die?
- With a legacy
- What is your present state of mind?
- Curious
- What is your motto?
- An unexamined life is not worth living
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