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On Fri, 20 Jun 14 14:11:56 UTC M. Le Ahcim-nevets (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To become not-self, and to lose empathy by means of losing feeling; sanity as such
- Where would you like to live?
- In a an apartment over a bar or tobacco shop; somewhere with real, but friendly, feeling
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Bourbon, cigarettes, poetry, music, and madness
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- The fault of ethical privation
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Stephen Dedalus and Candide
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Alexander the Great, Cesare Borgia, and Nieztsche
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Leymah Gbowee and Harriet Shaw Weaver
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Miranda of The Tempest, Lysistrata, and Homer's Penelope
- Your favorite painter?
- Francis Bacon, Paul Klee, Giovanni Di Paolo
- Your favorite musician?
- Jimi Hendrix, Rachmaninoff, Gerhardt Zimmerman, Yo Yo Ma, Tori Amos
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Peaceful violence, bravery, modesty in luck
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Honesty, friendliness, strategy
- Your favorite virtue?
- Love, faith in love
- Your favorite occupation?
- Gardening, followed by smoking and drinking mixed with writing
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Silent
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Skinniness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Their love -- provided their exquisiteness keeps the price of that love rather high, and that their love is worth loving in return
- What is your principle defect?
- Absence
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Having lived a different life
- What would you like to be?
- Human, honest, and brave
- What is your favorite color?
- The color which lies to the edges of those we have given names
- What is your favorite flower?
- The bluest iris and the reddest poppy
- What is your favorite bird?
- Crows and ravens, or hawks
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- James Joyce, Charles Bukowski, Mark Z Danielewski, William S Burroughs, Emily Bronte, Herman Melville, John Keats, Boccacio
- Who are your favorite poets?
- T S Eliot, Charles Bukowski, Ezra Pound, Baudelaire, W H Auden, e. e. cummings, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Emily Dickinson-- impossibly many more
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- The men who see and feel, and from this, love tenderly and violently
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- The women who hear and feel, and from this, love madly and passionately
- What are your favorite names?
- The Holy Ones
- What is it you most dislike?
- Compromise and disjuncts
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The genocidal, resentful and oppressive
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- "Lay on, Macduff!"
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- A sound physiological constitution
- How would you like to die?
- Happy to have lived
- What is your present state of mind?
- Unresolved
- What is your motto?
- Love everything.
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