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On Thu, 14 Jan 16 02:33:18 UTC Marie answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Rootlessness, to be without a home
- Where would you like to live?
- Somewhere quiet and private with a large garden
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- My family
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Procrastination
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Aragorn
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Schopenhauer, Thomas Beckett, Richard III
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Flannery O'Connor
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Jane Eyre
- Your favorite painter?
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Your favorite musician?
- JS Bach
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Selflessness
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Self-possession
- Your favorite virtue?
- Prudence
- Your favorite occupation?
- Thinking
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I doubt anyone would truly like being anyone else, since there are just as many drawbacks to being anyone.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My desire for everyone around me to be content.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Honesty
- What is your principle defect?
- Laziness
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To lose a child.
- What would you like to be?
- Better
- What is your favorite color?
- Probably a specific shade of green.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Lilacs, dahlias, cabbage roses, hydrangeas
- What is your favorite bird?
- Hummingbirds
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Flannery O'Connor, Wendell Berry, Josephine Tey, Dorothy Sayers, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, Jane Austen
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Blake, A.E. Housman, Keats
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My husband, my dad
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Mothers
- What are your favorite names?
- Pretty ones
- What is it you most dislike?
- Slovenliness
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- A high horse isn't a very safe place to sit.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The evacuation of Dunkirk.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- To be a good listener.
- How would you like to die?
- Quietly and prepared.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Trying to think of something clever to put here.
- What is your motto?
- One is nearer God's heart in a garden than anywhere else on Earth.
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