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On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:24:31 UTC Maltet answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other
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- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To be convinced of the transience of all that has ever existed.
- Where would you like to live?
- Where there is beauty or hope (though they are one and the same) stretching into infinite.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To know the sublime, to hear Zephyrus play the reeds, to escape into the night, to never be alone.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- To unwarranted bouts of depression.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- The idealists who are so often destroyed by the whims of a cruel world.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- The idealists, or those who seek truth and beauty. Some may even create it.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Those who abandon the expected life and seek something more noble.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Honestly, those who kick serious ass. (Thursday Next)
- Your favorite painter?
- Vincent van Gogh, Rembrandt, Delacroix, Courbet, Corot, Millet...
- Your favorite musician?
- Chopin, Paganini, a good number of artists from the 60's, some from the 70's....
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence, idealism, a conscience.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence, rationality.
- Your favorite virtue?
- A sense of justice.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Dreaming, reading, pondering possibility.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Anyone, so long as my death should have been before 1840.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A tendency towards stubborness.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- That they comfort simply by their presence.
- What is your principle defect?
- Lack of satisfaction, yearning for things long gone.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have taken the other path.
- What would you like to be?
- Understanding of the questions that rob me of sleep and haunt my days, or at least better able to search for these answers, even if they remain elusive for all eternity.
- What is your favorite color?
- The colours composing the dawn, the dusk, the page of a book...
- What is your favorite flower?
- Poppies....or sunflowers.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The owl.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Victor Hugo, Franz Kafka, Vincent van Gogh (his letters), Neil Gaiman...
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Baudelaire, Keats, Aeschylus, Percy Shelley...
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- I don't have any, I think....
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Sophie Germain...she was epic when it came to mathematics.
- What are your favorite names?
- The name that you never will guess; The name that no human research can discover!
- What is it you most dislike?
- My flaws.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Kings. Emperors. Anyone who has a hand in the oppression of the masses...unfortunately there are too many to name.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Valmy, wars in the streets during the 19th century.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- To create, whether art or literature.....confidence would be nice, too.
- How would you like to die?
- Gloriously, maybe tragically, but something that looks good for the history books or the fiction aisle of Barnes and Noble.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Exasperated. I do not wish for this procrastination from reports to end.
- What is your motto?
- (Stolen from Zola) "Respectable people, what bastards!"
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