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On Fri, 05 Feb 16 13:27:14 UTC Michael Thornberry answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Loneliness
Where would you like to live?
Everywhere!
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To never stop learning, to be exited by ideas and possibilities.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Self-pity
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Those that see the beauty in the ordinary.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Those on the outside.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mother and Rachel
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Those not drawn by men.
Your favorite painter?
Rothko
Your favorite musician?
Coltrane
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence and humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?
see above.
Your favorite virtue?
Justice, the all encompassing virtue.
Your favorite occupation?
Bringing about real change in the world for the good.
Who would you have liked to be?
Astronaut.
Your most marked characteristic?
A need to be acknowledged for what I believe myself to be.
What do you most value in your friends?
Empathy
What is your principle defect?
self-hatred
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Never to have met Rachel.
What would you like to be?
See Proust.
What is your favorite color?
Fuck Proust. Sea Green
What is your favorite flower?
Fuschia, it reminds me of summer in Wicklow.
What is your favorite bird?
Robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?
DeLilo, Pynchon.
Who are your heroes in real life?
The man who is happy.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Curie.
What are your favorite names?
Rachel, I see it before me in everything I do.
What is it you most dislike?
See Proust.
What event in military history do you most admire?
The last great morally just war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Assuredness
How would you like to die?
With my mind made up.
What is your present state of mind?
Aware of my self and what I must do.

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