Proust Questionnaire: Lauren H's answers

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On Wed, 07 Sep 16 23:46:58 UTC Lauren H (27) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The death of a loved one
Where would you like to live?: New York or London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Snow, a hot fire, a good book, blankets and a drink of butterbeer latte.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I am very lazy and slothenly at times.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I like dreamers, artists, poets and adventurers.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Rosa Parks, Marie Antoinette, Emeline Pankhurst, Elizabeth I, Marie Curie
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother and my late grandmother but really all the women in my life.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Luna Lovegood, star girl, Lyra Belaqua three tenacious girls who are never afraid to be themselves.
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Debussy
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence and whit
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and strength of character
Your favorite virtue?: Patience (as I don't often possess it)
Your favorite occupation?: Reading and studying.
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself but born 90 years earlier I would have had so much fun in the 20s.
Your most marked characteristic?: Neurotic, creative, dramatic, introverted and bookish
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: My unfortunate anxiety
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never feel love
What would you like to be?: An author, university lecturer and scholar.
What is your favorite color?: Blush pink (the colour of my wedding gown)
What is your favorite flower?: Peony
What is your favorite bird?: The robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I don't have a favourite, I love so many.
Who are your favorite poets?: Jen Cambell, Sylvia Plath, EE Cummings, to name a few
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Antoinette
What are your favorite names?: Winnifred, Hermione, Lilian, Tomasin, Tabitha, Beatrice
What is it you most dislike?: Rudeness and disloyalty
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't really admire warfare.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The gift of drawing and painting well
How would you like to die?: Loved, peaceful and surrounded by my loved ones
What is your present state of mind?: Calm, awake, contemplative.
What is your motto?: This too shall pass.

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