Proust Questionnaire: Josh's answers

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On Tue, 12 Apr 11 09:18:49 UTC Josh (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: the inability to reciprocate love fully or the inability to find something truly loveable
Where would you like to live?: behind the mountains and in front of the sea where a warm breeze blows. On top of a symphony house.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be forever surrounded by dear friends and forever embraced by a passionate lover; that good food, good music, subtle wines, and raw literature be forever within reach; and that everyone in the world would enjoy the same.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: extreme narcissism and that very few people ever call me on it
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Henry Higgins, Jose Arcadio Buendia, Mrs. Wilcox
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Albert Schweitzer, those who were called fools for giving too freely of their time and love
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Anne Murray, every impoverished woman in this world who sacrifices herself for her children
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eliza Doolittle, Ursula Buendia, Maria de Buenos Aires,
Your favorite painter?: Renoir, Monet, Gauguin
Your favorite musician?: Piazzolla, Mozart, Cole Porter, George Gershwin
The quality you most admire in a man?: an acute intellect, practical sympathy, and enough humility for his heart to swell instead of his head, and beauty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: beauty and force of character constantly in use on behalf of the poor and destitute.
Your favorite virtue?: humble intelligence
Your favorite occupation?: heart to hearts while traveling
Who would you have liked to be?: Darwin
Your most marked characteristic?: irrepressible gregariousness
What do you most value in your friends?: a healthy dose of articulate wit coupled with a deep understanding of the vast variation in human personality
What is your principle defect?: narcissism, the following complacency, and fright of giving of myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: one fell blow to all my family and friends; likewise, one fell blow to me that would render me unable to enjoy their company fully
What would you like to be?: loved
What is your favorite color?: Green
What is your favorite flower?: Ginger
What is your favorite bird?: hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: gabriel garcia marquez, shaw
Who are your favorite poets?: shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?: see above
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: see above
What are your favorite names?: chelsea for a boy, Claire for a girl
What is it you most dislike?: seaweed on my feet, undue snobbery, cruelty
What historical figures do you most despise?: hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: there is no admiration in war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a quick tongue with languages, pianistic prodigiousness, an effortlessly ripped body and perfect hand-eye coordination
How would you like to die?: dramatically, quickly, and with much wailing and gnashing of teeth because from those I leave behind
What is your present state of mind?: at sea
What is your motto?: To thine own self, be true

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