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On Mon, 27 Sep 10 23:16:16 UTC Laurie (58) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be separated from my kids
- Where would you like to live?
- Paris
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Being near friends, nature, museums, family, cats...
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- self-indulgence
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Don Quijote, Darcy, King Arthur
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Gandhi, Wm the Conqueror, Alexander the Great, FDR
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Joan of Arc, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ang San syu Ki,
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Elizabeth Bennett
- Your favorite painter?
- Rivera
- Your favorite musician?
- Mozart or Bach
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- loyalty
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- kindness
- Your favorite virtue?
- kindness
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, watching movies, listening to music
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Your most marked characteristic?
- desire for knowledge
- What do you most value in your friends?
- kindness, sense of humor, intelligence
- What is your principle defect?
- self-doubt, lack of follow-through
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Never to have had my children
- What would you like to be?
- employed continuously
- What is your favorite color?
- blue
- What is your favorite flower?
- rose
- What is your favorite bird?
- kestrel
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Proust, Mann, Austen, Cervantes
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Rimbaud, Neruda, Baudelaire, Marie de France, Plath
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Obama, Gandhi
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Joan of Arc, Elizabeth, eleanor of aquitaine
- What are your favorite names?
- Veronica, Alex
- What is it you most dislike?
- disloyalty, unkindness
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- hitler, stalin
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- battle of Hastings
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- charisma
- How would you like to die?
- with those I love around me
- What is your present state of mind?
- feeling out of place and un-respected
- What is your motto?
- Il ne faut jamais dire a la fontaine je ne boirai pas de ton eau.
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