Proust Questionnaire: LAND's answers

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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:38:54 UTC LAND (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Loneliness, suffering without forseeable end
Where would you like to live?: anywhere I'm loved
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: watching something funny in bed with Zack
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a life passionately dedicated to accomplishing pointless task
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Malcontents and revengers from Jacobean revenge tragedies.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: lesser-known great writers, especially Marlowe and Middleton; the Borgias; Giovanna D'Aragona, Duchess of Malfi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who do what they must because they can.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who do not sacrifice themselves to stereotype or to duty but to that which they believe in
Your favorite painter?: El Greco, Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, medieval flemish painters of tableaus
Your favorite musician?: don't have one. anyone who makes his/her instrument part of him/herself
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, the right combination of badassitude and tenderness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence, the right mixture of spirit and seriousness
Your favorite virtue?: Generosity (physical and spiritual/emotional)
Your favorite occupation?: spending time with Zack, reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Neil Gaiman.
Your most marked characteristic?: My intelligence
What do you most value in your friends?: Friendship
What is your principle defect?: Inability to understand or socialize with others
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To spend life alone and in misery with no chance of repreive
What would you like to be?: A better version of myself - or Neil Gaiman
What is your favorite color?: Green and deep red
What is your favorite flower?: daisies, chrysanthemums
What is your favorite bird?: don't have one
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Keats
Who are your heroes in real life?: my mother, Prof. Westfall, Neil Gaiman
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Giovanna D'Aragona, Duchess of Amalfi; Catalina de Erauso, la monja alférez
What are your favorite names?: Lanlan (my nickname)
What is it you most dislike?: stupidity, ignorance, and the prejudices they spawn
What historical figures do you most despise?: men who commit genocide and those writers who institutionalized prejudice against all who aren't white, rich, and male
What event in military history do you most admire?: none.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm
How would you like to die?: In an easily reversible manner
What is your present state of mind?: Superficial loneliness and worry; deep contentment and security
What is your motto?: I don't think I have one.

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