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On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:03:56 UTC MPaylor (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Inanition (I'm shamelessly ripping from Norman Mailer here.)
- Where would you like to live?
- Sometimes, in the mountains. In the Ozark hills. I guess, when I'm most honest with myself, though, I just want to live near (but not with) the people I love.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To have a library full of books and music, in a house in the middle of nowhere, with the one person in the world whom I can't live without.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Judgement--of myself and other people.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Prince Lyov Nikolayevich Myshkin (The Idiot), and Tyler Durden (Fight Club).
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Thoreau, Emerson, Sartre, Camus, Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Martin Luther, Marlon Brando, Heminway...
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Women who do not supress or fear their animus.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Wanda von Dunajew (Venus in Furs)
- Your favorite painter?
- Raphael and Gustav Klimt
- Your favorite musician?
- Jeff Buckley
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Stoicism, passion, mystery and intelligence
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Passion, intelligence, mystery and confidence
- Your favorite virtue?
- intuition, enthusiasm and honesty
- Your favorite occupation?
- Acting
- Who would you have liked to be?
- When I was 16, I cried because I knew that the one thing I wanted to be--the only thing--was impossible. I wanted to be a fish.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- The ability to deceive and to love and hate beyond even my own expectations.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Honesty or at least the ability to tell beautiful and interesting lies.
- What is your principle defect?
- A complete lack of ability to comprehend anything objectively.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To waste any more time than I already have.
- What would you like to be?
- New every day.
- What is your favorite color?
- Gray
- What is your favorite flower?
- The one I pass by on the freeway when I'm in a hurry and can't stop to pick it. The one I see in a shop the day before payday that is gone the next day.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The owl
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Amos Oz, Emerson and Sartre
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Neruda, my friends, and Bukowski
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- M. Dockery and my grandfather
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Gertrude Stein
- What are your favorite names?
- Any variant of William: Wilhem, Guillaume, Guillermo...
- What is it you most dislike?
- Frivolousness and hollowness
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Many popes and other religious leaders.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The French Revolution--all of them. : )
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Charisma and simplicity.
- How would you like to die?
- Alone or not at all.
- What is your present state of mind?
- I'm angry that I don't know enough about who I am to answer these questions truthfully.
- What is your motto?
- Immitation is suicide.
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