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On Sun, 16 Dec 12 23:06:19 UTC Mark (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Tedium.
Where would you like to live?
Paris, France. Anywhere where food is good and drinks flow.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Constant intellectual challenge and debate in a world of chaos and intrigue.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
To a life of wasted potential.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Kurtz and all those with his fatal flaw.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Ataturk, Thatcher, Jefferson and Disraeli.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Those that remain dignified and moral in this environment of depravity.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Those who show loyalty.
Your favorite painter?
J.S Lowry
Your favorite musician?
Chopin
The quality you most admire in a man?
Honesty, intellect and rationality.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Gentleness, charm and wit.
Your favorite virtue?
Consistancy
Your favorite occupation?
Conversation.
Who would you have liked to be?
Ozymandias.
Your most marked characteristic?
Rationality
What do you most value in your friends?
Fairness
What is your principle defect?
Insensitivity
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
An Afterlife.
What would you like to be?
Myself
What is your favorite color?
black
What is your favorite flower?
Orchid
What is your favorite bird?
the robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?
George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens
Who are your favorite poets?
Rupert Brooke and Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?
Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Nigel Farage.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Thatcher
What are your favorite names?
No preference
What is it you most dislike?
Religion or mendacity
What historical figures do you most despise?
Bill Clinton, Bismark, Karl Marx, Muhammad and Jesus Christ
What event in military history do you most admire?
Verdun
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Wit and likeability.
How would you like to die?
Conscious, surprised but prepared.
What is your present state of mind?
Indifference
What is your motto?
Vite Sine Literis Mors

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