Proust Questionnaire: Jordan's answers

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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:30:52 UTC Jordan (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Self Loathing
Where would you like to live?: London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To enjoy yourself as you see fit.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: going on spending sprees
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who come to know themselves and improve their own abilities
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Barduch Spinoza, Kinky Friedman, Aristotle, Nero
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those whos great knowledge will remain uknown to the majority of the world
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are a strong female character, who stand up for what is right.
Your favorite painter?: Francisco Goya
Your favorite musician?: Camille Saint Saens, DeVotchKa, Gogol Bordello
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, Loyalty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength of Character
Your favorite virtue?: A sense of equality
Your favorite occupation?: anything that allows you to travel and broaden your horizons
Who would you have liked to be?: Wherever the road leads me is where I shall go
Your most marked characteristic?: My liberalism
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: self-interest, self-loathing
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To die an untimely death
What would you like to be?: Nothing other than what is achievable.
What is your favorite color?: Black
What is your favorite flower?: That which blooms once and dies.
What is your favorite bird?: Owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Henrik Ibsen, JD Salinger
Who are your favorite poets?: Poetry is dead.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Heroes are for those who know not themselves.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: None.
What are your favorite names?: Anything with a foreign sound, from Europe.
What is it you most dislike?: How easy complete failure is to achieve.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Abraham Lincoln, for removing he basic rights of man during his rain.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I am a concientous objector to military conflict. The word solves more than the sword.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Knowledge
How would you like to die?: Doing what I love, knowing I have lived a life fulfilled
What is your present state of mind?: Disdain for the life of a poor man
What is your motto?: Strive for Greatness in Self, fear not what other people shall say of you.

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