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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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