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On Sun, 25 Mar 12 03:40:34 UTC Mel (44) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To live in regret
- Where would you like to live?
- Near old stone and water
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To forget that I have plenty
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Dreaming
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Anti-heroes of the mid-20th century writers
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Voltaire, Herbert Huncke, John Reed
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Margaret Sanger
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Those in John Irving's fiction
- Your favorite painter?
- Klimt
- Your favorite musician?
- Beethoven, Johnny Cash, Duke Ellington
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- The willingness to admit what he doesn't know
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- The willingness to admit what she doesn't feel
- Your favorite virtue?
- Honesty
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, dreaming and writing good dialogue
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Myself, born 30 years earlier
- Your most marked characteristic?
- To be uncertain
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Graciousness
- What is your principle defect?
- Slow to humor
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have been born after 1980
- What would you like to be?
- Who I wish I were
- What is your favorite color?
- Blue, the spectrum
- What is your favorite flower?
- Carnations
- What is your favorite bird?
- Robin
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Martin Amis, Joan Didion, Richard Price
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Ginsberg, Dickinson
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Elizabeth Warren, Patti Smith, Karen Silkwood
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Queen Elizabeth
- What are your favorite names?
- Ones that sound musical or like typewriter
- What is it you most dislike?
- Pettiness, self-centeredness
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- The end of the Civil War
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- The gift of gab
- How would you like to die?
- Don't tell me when it's coming!
- What is your present state of mind?
- Irritation that I couldn't give better answers
- What is your motto?
- It's soon to be patented.
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