Proust Questionnaire: Melissa P's answers

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On Thu, 07 Jul 16 23:28:32 UTC Melissa P (63) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To think I have to know what to do.
Where would you like to live?: On the Tygart Valley River in West Virginia, USA
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be loved.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To have nothing to do.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who admit their horrors of themselves and the world, looking fearlessly, and are thusly redeemed
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Tricksters, cheerful scoundrels, those who are obsessed with creating, storytellers, those who have suffered imaginably and live to tell us
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Cheerful change makers, baudy freedom fighters
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Independent, brilliant, flawed, genuine
Your favorite painter?: Willem de Kooning
Your favorite musician?: Carlos Santana
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humility, collaborative, kind, funny
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, humility, collaborative, kind, funny
Your favorite virtue?: Honor, fearlessness
Your favorite occupation?: Anything on or in water; making love
Who would you have liked to be?: John Muir, Mark Twain, Ma Rainey
Your most marked characteristic?: My directness
What do you most value in your friends?: Respect, tolerance, wit, kindness, generosity, not afraid to argue
What is your principle defect?: Overthinking, Lack of confidence
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live without love
What would you like to be?: A clear, deep mountain lake.
What is your favorite color?: gold, glacier ice blue, violet, evergreen
What is your favorite flower?: Peony
What is your favorite bird?: Crow, Swallow, Cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Francine du Plessis Gray, Tomas Hardy, MFK Fisher, Christopher Hitchens, Dickens, Heinlein, Shakespeare
Who are your favorite poets?: Bukowski, Frost, Joni Mitchell
Who are your heroes in real life?: Justin Trudeau, Michelle Obama, Sarah Silverman
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Catherine the Great, Elizabeth I, Georgia O'Keefe, Grandma Jones, Sojourner Truth, Gertrude Stein
What are your favorite names?: Araceli, Jasper, Clair, Jackson, Mab
What is it you most dislike?: Wanting what I don't have and suffering for it, projections of unrealistic ideals and desires onto each other
What historical figures do you most despise?: Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: All surrenders
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power, musical composition
How would you like to die?: Lucid and content in bed
What is your present state of mind?: Wary, resigned, and hopeful
What is your motto?: Easy come, easy go

Know thyself, forget thyself

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