Proust Questionnaire: MCI's answers

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On Sat, 12 Jan 13 08:21:45 UTC MCI (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Aimlessness.
Where would you like to live?: A place where culture, commerce, peace and nature are in equilibium
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Having flux between desire and contentedness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Stephen Dedalus, Vladimir and Estragon, James Bond
Who are your favorite characters in history?: José Rizal
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: All women who set out their own course in life.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Emma Bovary, Dolores Haze
Your favorite painter?: Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Brahms
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Self-determination, resolve, and intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion
Your favorite occupation?: Performing music, reading, writing fiction
Who would you have liked to be?: James Joyce
Your most marked characteristic?: Seriousness tempered with bouts of spite and childishness
What do you most value in your friends?: Their kindness
What is your principle defect?: Fatalistic, defeatist
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never learning how to read music
What would you like to be?: A version of myself without excess
What is your favorite color?: Grey
What is your favorite flower?: Lavender
What is your favorite bird?: Cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Richard Yates, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, José Saramago, Flann O'Brien
Who are your favorite poets?: W.B. Yeats, Blake, Tomas Transtromer, Gertrude Stein
Who are your heroes in real life?: DL, SD, DTO, JB
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Catherine the Great, Jeanne d'arc
What are your favorite names?: Quirico, Federico, Seamus, Augustin
What is it you most dislike?: My habits of self-effacement and arrogance
What historical figures do you most despise?: Marcos, Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao
What event in military history do you most admire?: D-Day
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Knowing the balance between modesty and self-confidence
How would you like to die?: Softly.
What is your present state of mind?: Perturbed.
What is your motto?: I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today.

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