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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:39:41 UTC Matt (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Tacoma. In the dense fog. Homesick and in physical pain. Explaining to a local and original Washingtonian why I moved there.
- Where would you like to live?
- On a prairie in a white farm house. Or in the mountains in a trailer.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Falling asleep someplace where I can leave the window open in the summer.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- an obsession with beauty and sensations
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those who stand up to tyrants and bullies. Those who live for themselves without needlessly harming others.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Ovid, Ayn Rand, Julian the Apostate, Hendrix, Rachel Carson
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Any woman who can front a metal band and hold her own. Women who resist the urge to be crusaders and live for themselves and those they love.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Ayla in Clan of the Cave Bear.
- Your favorite painter?
- H.R. Giger
- Your favorite musician?
- Paz Lenchantin
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- decency, knowledge, and strength
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- A free spirit. good judgment.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Intelligence coupled with morality and strength.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Eating and drinking
- Who would you have liked to be?
- An Evolutionary Biologist
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My solitude and shyness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Loyalty and empathy
- What is your principle defect?
- my profound distrust of others
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To enter middle age as a solitary man
- What would you like to be?
- A patriarch of a large family. An effective teacher and writer.
- What is your favorite color?
- Green
- What is your favorite flower?
- Wild ones that grow uncultivated
- What is your favorite bird?
- Corvids and Wading Birds
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Henry James, Frank Herbert, Twain
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Frost, Spencer
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My English 101 teacher.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Rachel Carson, Ayn Rand, Marija Gimbutas, Boudicca
- What are your favorite names?
- You can call me either one.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Crowds. The mob. Willful ignorance.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- All fascists, tyrants, and fanatics.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The invasion of Normandy and the liberation of Europe.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- the ability to do mathematics. Physical attractiveness would have been nice, also.
- How would you like to die?
- on a bed of leaves and turf along the bank of a river at midsummer.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Exhuastion. Anxiety.
- What is your motto?
- If you can't fix it with bailing wire and duct tape, the best thing you can do is take it into the desert and set it on fire.
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