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On Tue, 21 Sep 10 03:47:29 UTC Mathew Gallant (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be ignorant
Where would you like to live?
Where the Good is shared, and where the Bad is reviled.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Good friends, good food, good wine.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Sloth and irresponsible laziness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Odysseus, Robin Hood; characters who inspire us to surpass ourselves.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Napoleon, Gaius Marius, Thomas More, Diogenes Of Sinope, St. Francis
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Jeanne d'Arc
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Lysistrata
Your favorite painter?
Pieter Bruegel the Elde
Your favorite musician?
Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?
Critical, reasoned thought and a dedication to the greater good.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence, self respect
Your favorite virtue?
The Virtues that benefit the common good foremost: humility and generosity.
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, Drinking and Singing.
Who would you have liked to be?
One of the Brothers Gracchi
Your most marked characteristic?
Anger at, derision towards and disdain of the rich and powerful
What do you most value in your friends?
Solidarity. The ability to look beyond themselves and see what they have in common with others.
What is your principle defect?
Lack of motivation, shyness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To die unmourned, alone. To be forgotten entirely.
What would you like to be?
A Good man.
What is your favorite color?
The color of dark, well polished and varnished wood. Deep, reddish brown.
What is your favorite flower?
The lily
What is your favorite bird?
The Lyrebird
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Sinclair, Eco, Ellison, Gibson
Who are your favorite poets?
Cohen, Kornaros and Homer
Who are your heroes in real life?
Chomsky,
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Joan of Arc, Mary Queen of Scots
What are your favorite names?
Cecil, Peter, Ekaterina
What is it you most dislike?
my own powerlessness in the face of evil
What historical figures do you most despise?
Cromwell, Martin Luther, Sulla, the conspirators who killed Caesar.
What event in military history do you most admire?
The Battle of Crete. Even though the partisans lost, they broke the Germans' will to fight.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Confidence and decisiveness.
How would you like to die?
Well, known, and understood.
What is your present state of mind?
Desperation in order to avoid my responsilities.
What is your motto?
I have done nothing, in order that I may regret nothing; but in so doing I have come to regret everything.

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