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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:16:09 UTC Maruku (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Complete despair without renewal. This might be losing a loved one or faith (which have, in fact, brought about the lowest depths of misery).
- Where would you like to live?
- Ideally in a world of my craft; realistically in Italy.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To be enguled in deep thought and feeling. To have the freedom to change this.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Sensual fantasies and blasted timidity.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Alyosha Karamazov.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Socrates, yes, Wittgenstein. I can think of no one in the political or military spheres. I admire Kubrick and Dostoevsky.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- The ones that go unseen but not unwanted.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- My hesitation to answer speaks volumes. I'm sure there are some good women in The Grapes of Wrath somewhere.
- Your favorite painter?
- Vincent van Gogh
- Your favorite musician?
- Beethoven
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Moral virtue.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Understanding, gentleness.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Love and faith, though I feel as though I should uphold dignity in this case.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Writing, speaking, caring.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Socrates.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Mysterious.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Integrity and the recognition that integrity is not stubborness.
- What is your principle defect?
- Cowardice, damn cowardice.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To never have dared.
- What would you like to be?
- The most distant eye of the universe, to peer back at what beauties trail behind me.
- What is your favorite color?
- The best possible colour in the best possible place.
- What is your favorite flower?
- I am sadly not botanical, but sunflowers never fails to strike me.
- What is your favorite bird?
- A robin red-breast.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Ah! Steinbeck and Dostoevsky, but don't assume I'm literary,
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Tony Harrison, Allen Ginsberg, Alexander Pope, Keats.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Ex-history teacher and them which 'av sacred 'arts.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Wittgenstein's mother.
- What are your favorite names?
- I too only have one at a time.
- What is it you most dislike?
- My faults and their causes.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The Nazis.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- If I knew better I might mention Dunkirk or something to do with Ulysses S Grant.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Perfection.
- How would you like to die?
- Young, without regret or fear.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Wishing I could be more determined.
- What is your motto?
- What's a motto with you?
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