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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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