Proust Questionnaire: Liz's answers

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On Mon, 06 Jan 14 17:04:36 UTC Liz (64) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: homelessness
Where would you like to live?: Where I do, in an off-grid house.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Just like Proust, only substitute "coffee shop" for "French theatre".
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My own.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Travis McGee
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gandhi, Catherine the Great, St. Catherine of Siena, Tecumseth
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mulala
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennet, Mrs. Eleanor Cadwallader, Beatrice (from Much Ado About Nothing)
Your favorite painter?: Travis Shilling, Kim Campbell
Your favorite musician?: Peter Harbocian, Michael Jones
The quality you most admire in a man?: Empathy
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Empathy
Your favorite virtue?: Empathy
Your favorite occupation?: Anything outside.
Who would you have liked to be?: Julian of Norwich
Your most marked characteristic?: Hatred of injustice.
What do you most value in your friends?: Empathy
What is your principle defect?: Shyness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Homelessness.
What would you like to be?: What Proust said.
What is your favorite color?: What Proust said.
What is your favorite flower?: Lilacs.
What is your favorite bird?: Great Blue Heron
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Alice Munro
Who are your favorite poets?: Yeats.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Steven Lewis, Mulala, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Ai Wei Wei.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Catherine of Siena, Catherine the Great, Julian of Norwich
What are your favorite names?: James, Jeremy, Jennifer, Layla, Eve, Mary, Claire
What is it you most dislike?: injustice.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: The successful defeat of any invading army.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Salesmanship.
How would you like to die?: In my hammock in August, at least twenty years from now.
What is your present state of mind?: Agitated.
What is your motto?: I will borrow Ai Wei Wei's: Everything is politics. Everything is art.

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