Proust Questionnaire: Kate's answers

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On Sun, 29 Jan 12 08:19:28 UTC Kate answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being depressed and sad
Where would you like to live?: Inside myself--seriously, anywhere. A person makes his/her own happiness. I just want to live well and to always be independent.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Good friends, good books, amazing Nature and the great outdoors, healthy food, good wine, COLD beer!
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Giving in to my perpetual curiosity about anything and everything
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Underdogs . . .
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates (honestly!), Crazy Horse, Gandhiji (as my friends in India are quick to point out, he was faulty BUT as I say, he took the concept of civil disobedience and really effected change), Winston Churchill (a true asshole but so brilliant with language)
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Elouise Cobell and any ordinary woman who goes to extraordinary means to make things happen
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Underdogettes . . .
Your favorite painter?: My Aunt (she is an artist and quite good . . .)--works by undiscovered geniuses, and for a known painter, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci--a true artistic wit
Your favorite musician?: Andrés Segovia, Arselan Kamkar, the late, great Frank Zappa's kick-ass jazz guitar, JIMMY PAGE, others . . .
The quality you most admire in a man?: A nice bum, compassion and empathy with others (not me, just people in general)
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Compassion and empathy with others (not me, just people in general)
Your favorite virtue?: Courage in the face of life's challenges
Your favorite occupation?: Almost everything I've done excluding law (teaching, writing, editing, designing and making jewellery, life coaching, etc . . .)
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself . . . I cannot change this so I do not entertain the thought
Your most marked characteristic?: Sense of humour, possibly covering pain (at times)
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty . . . a friend must be honest
What is your principle defect?: I am getting older . . . I cannot change this, therefore I am defective :P
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not try something and find out for myself . . .
What would you like to be?: Myself . . . because that is what I am
What is your favorite color?: Colour for what? It depends.
What is your favorite flower?: The Calla lily . . . a perfect flower in an imperfect world
What is your favorite bird?: Eagle and what he represents--I believe Eagle represents the power of Great Spirit (God) and other wonderful, powerful things . . .
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Mark Twain . . . he must have been a fun and witty dude to be around!
Who are your favorite poets?: it so depends on my mood . . . Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath . . . the usual tragic people
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father (78 years old, still works and works out 2-3 times a week). If I am a good person in any way, it is because of my father and his sage advice throughout my life.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra? Proust answered with this? OMG Cleopatra was a self-obsessed slut. Oh well . . . my answer: Cleopatra!
What are your favorite names?: Sam (my late hero dog). For me, it doesn't matter, just don't call me a bitch. EVER!
What is it you most dislike?: Mean people and myself when I'm mean to others. I try not to be but I'm imperfect.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Christopher Columbus, George Armstrong Custer, Theodor Herzl, Adolf Hitler . . . anyone who sought (or seeks) to deprive any others of human rights
What event in military history do you most admire?: the end of any war . . . and there is never a winner
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A better gift of gab
How would you like to die?: Suddenly . . . I don't want to know it's happening. I'm too much of a coward. Still, why do I keep doing dangerous things? The thrill of NOT DYING?
What is your present state of mind?: Overwhelmed trying to work for three companies (two are mine) and get settled in India.
What is your motto?: Do unto others . . . it IS cliché but so, so true. Treat others as you wish to be treated--be NICE! I'm not perfect as I must remind myself of this sometimes . . .

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