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On Sun, 24 Jul 11 17:08:41 UTC Mike (53) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To lose a child
- Where would you like to live?
- Where my loved ones reside
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To be able to live (with my family) in comfort and to do the things we want to do, without having to worry about anything, money included.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Those which I myself portray.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Tom Jones, Pa Larkin, and similar larger than life characters.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- King Richard 1, Samuel Johnson, Indira Gandhi, Schindler, and other like all of these.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Any woman who has overcome adversity, especially adversity linked to gender bias.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Belle de Jour and Xaveria Hollander and any other happy hookers....
- Your favorite painter?
- Toulouse-Lautrec
- Your favorite musician?
- Chopin
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Honesty/intergrity
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence and natural beauty.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Those that are genuinely held
- Your favorite occupation?
- Making love to the most beautiful woman in the world
- Who would you have liked to be?
- A beautiful, intelligent and independent woman.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A very strong sense of justice/injustice
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Honesty and good humour
- What is your principle defect?
- Prevarication
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Not living long enough to see my children happily married and with stable incomes.
- What would you like to be?
- A successful businessman/business woman
- What is your favorite color?
- why does it matter? I know what colours to wear and which not to wear (and when).
- What is your favorite flower?
- The Crimson Beauty Rose
- What is your favorite bird?
- Robin
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Me
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Alfred Noyes and William Wordswoth
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My father.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Joan of Arc, Indira Gandhi
- What are your favorite names?
- Samantha
- What is it you most dislike?
- Dishonesty and corruption
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler, Mussolini
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Strength of character and an irresistable charm.
- How would you like to die?
- Happy
- What is your present state of mind?
- Melancholy
- What is your motto?
- I came, I saw, I loved.
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