Proust Questionnaire: Malibu's answers

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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:31:15 UTC Malibu (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Alcoholism after the loss of a loved one
Where would you like to live?: In a place surrounded with the things I love
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Waking up in the morning with a woman
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Gluttany and misanthropism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Marcello (La Dolce Vita), Robert Jordan, Jean Valjean, John Rambo
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Rockefeller, Patton, Robert E Lee
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Ellen MacArthur
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Lauren Bacall as Marie Browning
Your favorite painter?: Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Miles Davis or Jerry Garcia
The quality you most admire in a man?: Ability to cope
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Tenderness
Your favorite virtue?: I can't think of any
Your favorite occupation?: Listening to Music
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself when I was at the height of my powers
Your most marked characteristic?: Never wanting to wait for anything
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence
What is your principle defect?: Constantly creeping depression
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have been blissfully in love or never know what it feels like to have someone cheer for you
What would you like to be?: A little richer and multilingual
What is your favorite color?: None alone but they way they all come together
What is your favorite flower?: Calla lily
What is your favorite bird?: The sparrows that lived outside my room when I was a child
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway, Bolero, Wolff (Tobias)
Who are your favorite poets?: Cummings, Chaucer
Who are your heroes in real life?: Any man who takes risks
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Mothers who truly gave everything to her child
What are your favorite names?: Kelly for a man, women's names have never meant anything to me at the time every one seemed like a poem
What is it you most dislike?: Honestly, the hippies who talk about being open but laughed at me when I went to a Dead show in Khakis and a button down...that type of hypocrisy
What historical figures do you most despise?: Every politician who engages in war and does not let his/her troops win
What event in military history do you most admire?: Stockdale as a POW
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Singing Voice
How would you like to die?: In a struggle to not die
What is your present state of mind?: Sheepish that I have nothing truly original or enlightening to write here
What is your motto?: Regret what you do not what you didn't

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