Proust Questionnaire: Michael's answers

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On Fri, 11 Nov 16 04:42:37 UTC Michael (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be disliked by my peers
Where would you like to live?: In the city, where I currently live
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to work and eat and sleep happy thoughts because my world is orderly
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Talent wasted on ignorance or arrogance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are pressed to make sacrificial decisions for the betterment of others
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Ghengis Khan because he was ruthless, Ghandi because he cared only for others
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Single mothers, there's one at work whom I bring coffee in the morning for no particular reason.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who find a way to upstage this male dominated world.
Your favorite painter?: Picasso
Your favorite musician?: Tom Waits
The quality you most admire in a man?: morality above monetary gain
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Being without a woman, I admire the touch and smell of that curious species of human.
Your favorite virtue?: resilience is the most useful, I think.
Your favorite occupation?: I stamp papers for a living, thousands of them every day, yet I dream of sailing.
Who would you have liked to be?: a dashing poet spewing knight who slayed beasts and rescued damsels. Sadly, my time is past.
Your most marked characteristic?: I say hello to strangers, that's a habit. Oh, also I love to watch people.
What do you most value in your friends?: The willingness to listen. All my friends blab because I think they don't really care.
What is your principle defect?: My willingness to be around my friends.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not know my life. To be someone else. Because now I will never forget this place of solitude.
What would you like to be?: Something more. I've always wondered what it would be like to be famous or rich, two impossibilities I'm afraid.
What is your favorite color?: Is it morbid to like gray and black?... because in the shadows all things appear equal.
What is your favorite flower?: The simple daisy.
What is your favorite bird?: Blue jay
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Shakepeare
Who are your favorite poets?: Lao Tzu
Who are your heroes in real life?: The boy down the street when I was growing up that saved me from being beat up. He moved away and I never knew his name.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Also Cleopatra
What are your favorite names?: William and Wallace
What is it you most dislike?: Weakness
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those hidden individuals who run the marginalized lives of others
What event in military history do you most admire?: I loathe all wars and the leaders who chose to slaughter millions for financial gain.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The rare ability to keep one's mouth shut.
How would you like to die?: Fulfilled in women, and well read.
What is your present state of mind?: Full of wonderment at my recent promotion at work.
What is your motto?: Walk until your legs will carry you no further.

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