Proust Questionnaire: MM's answers

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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:54:09 UTC MM (34) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: loneliness and the lack of little that is needed or wanted
Where would you like to live?: A nice sized house with a garden with my family.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: All of the above replacing the need for a French theatre with films and restaurants
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: laziness and procrastination
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Vince Noir and Howard Moon
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Ida B. Wells Barnett, Elizabeth I, Ng Mui & anyone else who kicked ass, stayed true to themselves and helped others
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Anyone who kicks ass, stays true to themselves and helps others
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Wife of Bath, Amelie Poulain, Liz Lemon, Shug Avery
Your favorite painter?: Kandinsky
Your favorite musician?: Bjork
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence and kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, dreaming, creating and taking in beauty
Who would you have liked to be?: A much better version of myself
Your most marked characteristic?: anxiety
What do you most value in your friends?: understanding
What is your principle defect?: impatience and lack of drive
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have no one in the world to love or be loved by you
What would you like to be?: A much better version of myself
What is your favorite color?: Red and access to all other colors
What is your favorite flower?: lotus blossom
What is your favorite bird?: all of them
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Alice Walker, Isabelle Allende, Zadie Smith
Who are your favorite poets?: e.e. cummings, Muriel Rukeyser
Who are your heroes in real life?: The answer has not changed
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: The answer has not changed
What are your favorite names?: paloma, bronwen, angus
What is it you most dislike?: intolerence
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pol Pot
What event in military history do you most admire?: The decison to make peace
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Natural talent coupled with the drive to develop it
How would you like to die?: peaceful and loved
What is your present state of mind?: self-scrutiny
What is your motto?: Be who you are naturally

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