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On Wed, 02 May 18 22:28:31 UTC JohnDoe (35) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Losing those you love
- Where would you like to live?
- On a tree facing the ocean
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Peaceful existence with those you love and all around you
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- To a life deprived of what provides me earthly pleasures
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Ahab
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- All historical men are sterile
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- My mother
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- All the ghosts in Pedro Páramo
- Your favorite painter?
- Francis Bacon
- Your favorite musician?
- Too many to name
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Dignitiy, moral sense
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Dignity, moral sense
- Your favorite virtue?
- Humanness
- Your favorite occupation?
- Listening to music and swimming in the ocean
- Who would you have liked to be?
- A sailor speaking only the language of silence and carrying home in the heart
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Humanness. Sometimes jealousy
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Willingness not to judge
- What is your principle defect?
- Jealousy
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Illness
- What would you like to be?
- Something better and free
- What is your favorite color?
- Blue
- What is your favorite flower?
- All
- What is your favorite bird?
- Blackbird
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Herman Melville, Juan Rulfo, Knut Hamsun, W. G. Sebald
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Derek Walcott and A. R. Ammons
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My parents
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Joan of Arc
- What are your favorite names?
- I don't put much thought into it
- What is it you most dislike?
- Hypocrisy
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Dictators and fascists
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The end of all wars past and to come
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Charm
- How would you like to die?
- A better man than I am, and much beloved
- What is your present state of mind?
- Not good
- What is your motto?
- There's no motto when everything is changing
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