Proust Questionnaire: Joseph Yvon's answers

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On Tue, 30 Dec 14 18:12:59 UTC Joseph Yvon (63) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be blind.
Where would you like to live?: Where I am.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in security, surrounded by Green Nature and to have access to every movie I could want.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Procrastination and laziness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: great persons from the Past in history and fiction.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jesus Christ, Buddha, Socrates, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Genevieve, Nina, Mary, Mother of Jesus : women who don't give up, who domesticate the struggles of daily life in their own way.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn as characters
Your favorite painter?: Yves Klein
Your favorite musician?: Erik Satie
The quality you most admire in a man?: Courage and Creativity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, Domestic Command and Receptivity
Your favorite virtue?: Perseverance and Amiability
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, Watching movies and television actively and Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: An actor
Your most marked characteristic?: Enjoyment of life and optimism
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence and Dependability.
What is your principle defect?: Laziness, tendency to isolate myself from life
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be blind physically but also spiritually.
What would you like to be?: Happier, Busy
What is your favorite color?: Iridescent Blue
What is your favorite flower?: White Rose
What is your favorite bird?: Flamingo
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Gore Vidal, Marcel Proust
Who are your favorite poets?: Baudelaire, Dante, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: None that I can think of at this time ...
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I and II
What are your favorite names?: Joseph Yvon Isidore
What is it you most dislike?: My own faults
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Caligula
What event in military history do you most admire?: My refusal to enlist in Vietnam War
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Persistence and charm
How would you like to die?: Painlessly and ready for it
What is your present state of mind?: Eager for this to be done
What is your motto?: Keep on trucking!

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