Proust Questionnaire: Mignonne's answers

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On Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:01:44 UTC Mignonne (53) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: lose faith
Where would you like to live?: Sri Lanka or Florence
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Depends on my mood;generally, cooking/eating/music/painting/and being with people I like
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: mood enhancers
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: more life-like the better - we are all fallible. So-called perfect people are boring. I like imperfections. There's beauty within that radiates into a beautiful image.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, William the Conqueror, Karl Marx
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman who gives more than she gets
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Madam Bovary, Catherine in Wuthering Heights
Your favorite painter?: Renoire, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Corot
Your favorite musician?: Anyone who can improvise
The quality you most admire in a man?: A lateral thinker
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Someone who knows when to lead and when to follow
Your favorite virtue?: honesty and loyalty
Your favorite occupation?: reading, playing scrabble and eating
Who would you have liked to be?: wife of a genius who drives me nuts
Your most marked characteristic?: dissipation
What do you most value in your friends?: humour
What is your principle defect?: fickleness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: never to have loved truly - even if it's for a second
What would you like to be?: myself but more creative
What is your favorite color?: the shades of green in the woods of a summer's evening
What is your favorite flower?: lillies and forget me nots
What is your favorite bird?: robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Reading Trollope, Jane Austen, Dickens and Thomas Hardy for the 100th time
Who are your favorite poets?: Byron, Pope and Shakespeare, sometimes
Who are your heroes in real life?: My butcher, and fish monger and all those super chefs
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra, Emily Bronte
What are your favorite names?: What's in a name...?
What is it you most dislike?: People who give their opinions too freely - especially uninvited
What historical figures do you most despise?: Ronald Reagan
What event in military history do you most admire?: Storming of the Bastille
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Concentration
How would you like to die?: In bed, at night with candles and Gregorian chanting - William Blake style
What is your present state of mind?: Am I beeing too honest with these answers - or should I slip into character I admire like my butcher....
What is your motto?: to thine ownself be true

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