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On Wed, 11 Jan 17 04:21:10 UTC Mercy (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Invasive and consuming self loathing and doubt -- feeling the world would be better off without me
- Where would you like to live?
- Here
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- A clean house, a morning without obligation, fresh air, a sudden uncontrollable urge to dance.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- All of them! Self indulgence in general, laziness, dirtiness, attachment, self doubt
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- The strong women, the mean ones, the femme fatales. Dark and dangerous and full of magic
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Eleanor Roosevelt, Empress Theodora, Frida Khalo, Kurt Vonnegut
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- My mother, Jann Wolcott, my sister, Joyce Carol Oates
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Sandra Cisneros -- all the characters who fashioned mostly from her (so all of them), Ramona Quimby
- Your favorite painter?
- My father
- Your favorite musician?
- Leonard Cohen
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Humility, confidence, a sense of humor, desire for growth
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Strength, fearlessness, compassion
- Your favorite virtue?
- Curiosity, self love
- Your favorite occupation?
- Writing, loving
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Audrey Hepburn
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Passionate -- compassionate, according to others
- What do you most value in your friends?
- How incredibly open and shameless we are with one another
- What is your principle defect?
- Stubbornness, self-doubt
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have grown up wealthy
- What would you like to be?
- Either a bit taller or a bit shorter, to be quite honest
- What is your favorite color?
- Green
- What is your favorite flower?
- Poppies
- What is your favorite bird?
- Raven
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Virginia Woolf or Kurt Vonnegut
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Sandra Cisneros, Rumi Kapur
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My mother
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Empress Theodora, Frida Khalo, Georgia O'Keefe
- What are your favorite names?
- My own, Eleanor, darling, and lover
- What is it you most dislike?
- Feeling alone -- not feeling lonely, and not being alone -- feeling alone
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Most of the ones I've learned about so far
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Literally none of them
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- A glowing, indescribable, magnetic, diffusive sort of aura
- How would you like to die?
- In love and at peace
- What is your present state of mind?
- Contemplative, worried
- What is your motto?
- “All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured.”
ZMD
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