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On Sun, 27 Nov 11 12:59:49 UTC Matisse (15) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To feel this very way for the rest of my life; to unhappily grow old with nothing to fondly look back and reminisce on.
- Where would you like to live?
- In the heart of a European city; in a countryside cottage by the sea.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To be surrounded by love, beauty and magic always.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Perpetually wasting my life away and filling my days with no importance.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those who obtain traits I wish to obtain; Oskar Schell for his inventive and creative ways, Rudy Steiner for his Courage, Peter Pan for his perpetual little boy wonder, Hans Hubermann for his kind heart -- the list goes on.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Charlie Chaplin, Van Gogh, The Romanov family, Johnny Cash, Edward Gorey, Morrissey, Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath, Anna Karina, The Beatles, Anne Frank, Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Bob Dylan, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn,
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- x
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- For many reasons, the following: Lucy Pevensie, Violet Baudelaire, Dolores Haze, Liesel Meminger, Amelie Poulain, Jenny Mellor, Alice Liddell and Briony Tallis.
- Your favorite painter?
- Adolph Von Menzel, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Le Sidaner, Gustave Caillebotte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J.W Waterhouse, Claude Monet, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt.
- Your favorite musician?
- I'm sorry -- this would be a very, very long list.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- x
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- x
- Your favorite virtue?
- x
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, writing letters, sky-gazing, highlighting poetry, taking trains into places where nobody knows me, listening to old records, dreaming, making lists, looking towards the stars, spending hours in the antique bookstore in town, exploring.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Someone who obtained a life full of beauty and magic in an era of lovelier times.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My ability to live purely off Loneliness, my irretrievable shyness and my Other Worldly ability to dream. (Not to mention my curse of seeing everything in a darkened matter; a true pessimistic at heart, I am.)
- What do you most value in your friends?
- x
- What is your principle defect?
- Selfishness, laziness, lack of happiness and lack of any sort of confidence.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have lived a life of which I was not grateful for.
- What would you like to be?
- A European writer of the past; a poet of the 1940's. Also: a hippie of Woodstock, a French florist, an artists muse, a WWII soldiers love interest, an explorer of the world and most of all, the feeling one gets when something is sad but beautiful.
- What is your favorite color?
- The colour of dusk and dawn each day.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Queen Anne's Lace, cherry blossoms, hydrangeas, poppies. All flowers are beauty. ("The Earth laughs in flowers.")
- What is your favorite bird?
- Hummingbirds and owls, perhaps.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, C.S Lewis, Oscar Wilde, Markus Zusak, Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Safren Foer, Neil Gaiman, Anais Nin, Bob Dylan, Nicole Krauss, Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Richard Siken, Edgar Allan Poe, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, e.e cummings, Emily Dickens, William Butler Yeats, Fernando Pessoa, Anne Sexton, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, W.H Auden, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, John Keats.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Anybody who obtains Bravery, Courage or Kindness. (The hippies of 1969 are undoubtedly a part of this group.)
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Anne Frank, perpetually so. Could only ever say the most loveliest of things about her.
- What are your favorite names?
- Boys: Theodore, Henry, Mathias, Thaddeus, Edmund, Matthieu, Leonard, Etienne, Bastiaan, Vladimir. Girls: Isabeau, Astrid, Beatrix, Violet, Ophelia, Isadora.
- What is it you most dislike?
- The amount of hate and unkindness in the world; every aspect of myself.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- I suppose one may say Hitler and he was indeed a terrible man though some part of me does not quite hate him; perhaps for the hope that occasionally he might have glimmered with goodness. Perhaps not.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- x
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- I'd like to be a charming writer with wit and kindness spilling at the seams, perhaps.
- How would you like to die?
- Happily, please.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Thoughtful, one should suppose.
- What is your motto?
- I've yet to obtain a motto. Farewell, farewell. x
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