Proust Questionnaire: M. J. A. Armstrong's answers

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On Sat, 27 Oct 12 06:30:59 UTC M. J. A. Armstrong (60) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To die on the battlefield, bleeding to death, alone.
Where would you like to live?: Anywhere I had enough money to live comfortably.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Friends, nature, books, music, and the time to appreciate them.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Inertia.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who have suffered and were able to find beauty in what is simple.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, Dostoevsky, Herbert Hoover
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Simone de Beauvoir
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Pygmalion
Your favorite painter?: Rousseau
Your favorite musician?: Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?: Impartiality
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness, Strength, Feminimity
Your favorite virtue?: Having an open mind
Your favorite occupation?: Making one dollar into two dollars.
Who would you have liked to be?: Tolstoy, because he thought the worst evil on earth is nationalism.
Your most marked characteristic?: To treat others how I'd like to be treated.
What do you most value in your friends?: A plethora of surprising pleasantries.
What is your principle defect?: Hastiness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Loss of loved ones.
What would you like to be?: True to myself.
What is your favorite color?: Blue when it's not like red.
What is your favorite flower?: The ones I give to my sweetheart.
What is your favorite bird?: Robins
Who are your favorite prose writers?: At the moment, Truman Capote and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Who are your favorite poets?: Neruda and Francis Ledwidge
Who are your heroes in real life?: Neil Armstrong
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: My wife.
What are your favorite names?: Sean and William
What is it you most dislike?: Brussel sprouts
What historical figures do you most despise?: Henry Kissinger
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't think it has happened yet.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Boy, that's a hard one to beat.
How would you like to die?: Loved.
What is your present state of mind?: Satisfaction.
What is your motto?: Make sure the bills get payed every month.

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