Proust Questionnaire: Lisa Gainsborough's answers

On Fri, 13 Jan 17 02:19:06 UTC Lisa Gainsborough answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

Where would you like to live?: Japan
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in contact with those I love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a life deprived of the works of genius
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those of romance and poetry
Who are your favorite characters in history?: A mixture of Socrates
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of genius leading an ordinary life
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly
Your favorite painter?: Meissonier
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, drawing
What is your favorite color?: Beauty lies not in colors but in their harmony
What is your favorite bird?: The swallow
What are your favorite names?: I only have one at a time
What event in military history do you most admire?: My own enlistment as a volunteer!
How would you like to die?: A better man than I am, and much beloved
What is your present state of mind?: Annoyance at having to think about myself in order to answer these questions
What is your motto?: I prefer not to say, for fear it might bring me bad luck.

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