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On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:32:31 UTC Mel Sundquist (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Self-doubt.
- Where would you like to live?
- A less disorganized version of the place I'm living now.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To easily switch back and forth between being comfortable and being stimulated. A balance of serenity and electrocution.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Hyper-criticism, self pity, and trusting an overactive imagination.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- What's the point of having a fictional hero? I don't want to be inspired by a fabrication - I'd rather find a hero in the real world.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Nellie Bly, Harry S. Truman, Ed Murrow, William Shakespeare, Simone de Beauvoir.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- I'm quite fond of myself. But as of now I'm not quite mature enough to look up to other women that I've met - I still feel they can do better.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- I'm attempting to think of who I try to emulate. How about the women I imagine on my own - the women of the Civil War, the happy single mothers and the columnists.
- Your favorite painter?
- I don't know. I do like Jackson Pollock quite a bit.
- Your favorite musician?
- David Bowie
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- A conformity between words and actions.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- A candid nature. Confidence and mysterious truth.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Choosing from the Roman virtues. This is difficult for me to answer. Each virtue is a favorite. I wish that I had more dignity, the people close to me had more gravitas, I enjoy humor in new acquaintences ... Can't pick just one.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Knitting. I enjoy the effects of most occupations more than the actual activity.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- What a miserable question. I like to be who I am and I'm not at all old enough to "have liked to be" anything. My existence isn't yet in past tense.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- I don't think I can answer this. Marked how? Noticed by whom? This isn't for me to answer.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- The ability to show love and criticism. Depth and breadth of character.
- What is your principle defect?
- I want to say inconsistency, but that in no way means that I want to be consistent. Stagnant. But I go in circles and forget who I was before I can learn from it.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To lose my daughter. Or to not deserve my daughter.
- What would you like to be?
- I would like to be more able to fill out this quiz quickly and honestly, without thinking in circles.
- What is your favorite color?
- Gray
- What is your favorite flower?
- The one that's still in the ground.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The bumbling stupid little quail that live in my neighborhood.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- I'm going to translate "prose" as "fiction." I like Edgardo Vega Yunque, John Steinbeck, Edwidge Danticat, and Truman Capote among others.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- I don't much like poetry. I can stand ee cummings and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My dad, Robbin, Jennie, David, and that hitchhiker. Here, I don't only mean "hero" as someone that I look up to, but someone who has saved me.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- I don't know any of them well enough to say.
- What are your favorite names?
- Old-fashioned names with many syllables and potential nicknames.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Driving at dusk. Pain that impedes sleep. Any unpleasantness that I can't justify or blame on someone else.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- The overrated ones. Michael Jackson.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- I can only think of events I've seen in movies, which I'm taking as proof that I don't have the knowledge to choose.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Wit.
- How would you like to die?
- I'm trying not to have any expectations concerning death.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Confused. Tired. Laughing. Worried. Skeptical. Guilty.
- What is your motto?
- "don't"
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