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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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