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On Mon, 12 Mar 12 01:51:29 UTC MaeveOne (27) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To live alone in a city full of people, surrounded by life but isolated in your apartment.
- Where would you like to live?
- New Orleans - the mix of smells, music, flavours.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Early Sunday morning with the sun streaming through the window, no major plans for the day, wrapped in the arms of my lover.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Being too trusting.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Mersault, Winston, Frankenstein's monster...the men with one foot in society and one outside.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- The kings who led their troops into battle, rather than sent them. Leonides of Sparta, etc.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- The unsung mothers.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- The women who aren't content to stay in a cage, whether gilded or otherwise, eg Eowyn.
- Your favorite painter?
- Frida Kahlo.
- Your favorite musician?
- Tom Waits.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Understanding, intuition.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Strength of character.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Empathy.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Daydreaming, writing, horse-riding.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- An author.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- An inner desperation for love.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Silent understanding. Honesty.
- What is your principle defect?
- I'm a self-sabatour.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To never find the love of your life.
- What would you like to be?
- Loved.
- What is your favorite color?
- The fire tones - red, yellow, orange, etc.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Wildflowers.
- What is your favorite bird?
- Any small songbird, eg thrushes, blackbirds, etc.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Camus, Tolkien, Mary Shelley, Ian McEwan.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Baudelaire, PB Shelley, Wilde, Eliot.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My parents.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Elizabeth I.
- What are your favorite names?
- Irish names like Oisín, Naoise, Realtín, Lenán.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Feeling overwhelmed by the world's problems and my personal problems within that.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler, George W Bush, King Leopold, Oliver Cromwell.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- D-Day Landings.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Musical talent.
- How would you like to die?
- In my sleep, without awareness.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Restless and melancholy,
- What is your motto?
- Have the courage to change the things you can, and the strength to stand the things you can't.
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