Proust Questionnaire: Mark's answers

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On Sun, 21 Aug 16 21:04:29 UTC Mark answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: I think most people are miserable. The ones who aren't just haven't stopped to think about it.
Where would you like to live?: If I'm somewhere full of people, somewhere isolated. If I'm somewhere isolated, somewhere full of people. Like the cat that just loves using the door.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Earthly? Just to be out of our own heads for a while.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Being aware of my own faults. Making faults out of normal quirks, just so I can feel like I have more faults.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Wile E. Coyote. An antihero, warning us against hubris.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great, Sequoia, Indira Gandhi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I wish I could have known the women in my family.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Did you know Thor's a woman now? Eat that.
Your favorite painter?: Ida Applebroog, man.
Your favorite musician?: Johnette Napolitano, man.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Being like 25 pounds overweight. It's the simple things.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Not giving a good god damn about what I- or anyone else- admires in women.
Your favorite virtue?: Fortitude. I just like the thought of taking stubbornness and making a cardinal virtue out of it. But that's human nature, right?
Your favorite occupation?: I've always been an artist. I'll always be an artist.
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone a little more successful or a little less motivated.
Your most marked characteristic?: I look tired. Thanks for noticing.
What do you most value in your friends?: I wish I even knew.
What is your principle defect?: I prefer not to think about it too much.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Superlatives. How can I know that. This is all relative to people. What destroys me may mildly irritate you.
What would you like to be?: Just free. Happy for more than a minute.
What is your favorite color?: The gray-green of a faded black t-shirt you still own from high school.
What is your favorite flower?: The corpse flower. Just kidding. My mother had a gardenia bush. The smell of a gardenia still hits me behind the eyes. It's a sad sort of favorite. I would never plant one.
What is your favorite bird?: The Seagull. The creature and the play.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I don't really read as much as I'd like.
Who are your favorite poets?: I do read as much poetry as I'd like. None.
Who are your heroes in real life?: I'm gonna have to pass on this one.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Have you heard of Henrietta Lacks. It's crazy what we do to people, man, but you owe her.
What are your favorite names?: What?
What is it you most dislike?: This is where I pretend to be more cynical than I am.
What historical figures do you most despise?: The usual ones. Mass murderers, etc. Also, the Emperor Constantine. Thanks for the Dark Ages.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Not really a field to merit much admiration, man.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: If I were a little shorter I could still fit in the back of a Camero. If I were a little taller I could join the circus.
How would you like to die?: In my sleep, with no one to miss me when I'm gone. I don't say that out of self pity, but it's a hell of a lot easier to leave than to be left behind. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
What is your present state of mind?: Mounting agitation.
What is your motto?: Cogito, ergo doleo.

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