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On Mon, 09 Jul 12 10:17:28 UTC Magellan (44) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
economic ruin which has been visited upon the small man by globalization
Where would you like to live?
Utopia
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
a smile from a child, a purr from a cat, the arms of my wife, Chateau Lafite Rothschild and a decent book
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
unfulfilled opportunities
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Sherlock Holmes
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Copernicus
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Susan Duncan
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Kay Scarpetta
Your favorite painter?
Clifford Possum
Your favorite musician?
Gabriel Yared
The quality you most admire in a man?
Compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?
strength
Your favorite virtue?
truth and fairness
Your favorite occupation?
fishing
Who would you have liked to be?
Harry Morant
Your most marked characteristic?
a facial scar and one eye
What do you most value in your friends?
Trust and respect
What is your principle defect?
Being too Judgemental
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
to die not knowing
What would you like to be?
someone who has so far grabbed each day and lived it to the fullest
What is your favorite color?
a desert sunrise over the vast rolling plains of mulga
What is your favorite flower?
sunflowers, flanders poppies
What is your favorite bird?
King Parrot
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Voltaire
Who are your favorite poets?
Samuel Coleridge Taylor
Who are your heroes in real life?
Ferdinand Magellan - Drake
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Jacquotte Delahaye
What are your favorite names?
my own
What is it you most dislike?
My own worst qualities
What historical figures do you most despise?
G.W Bush , Benjamin Netanyahu
What event in military history do you most admire?
The charge of the Light Horse at Beersheeba
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
compassion
How would you like to die?
painlessly having lived a full life
What is your present state of mind?
maudlin
What is your motto?
Jump off a cliff

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