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On Tue, 12 May 2009 16:11:41 UTC Minerva Black (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
My sisters dying.
Where would you like to live?
All over the world.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Freedom from debt.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Spending too much money, Eating too much. Just general proneness to extremes.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Holden Caulfield, David Copperfield, Nick Carraway.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Abigail Adams, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Joseph and Emma Smith, Susan B. Anthony, MLK, Eliza R. Snow.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Rosi Hayes, Rosemary Reeve.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Emily Starr, Valancy Stirling,
Your favorite painter?
Sisley
Your favorite musician?
Frank Sinatra.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Integrity, humor, and intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Willingness to confide.
Your favorite virtue?
Integrity
Your favorite occupation?
Teaching
Who would you have liked to be?
Someone taken seriously.
Your most marked characteristic?
Gloominess.
What do you most value in your friends?
Belief in my intelligence.
What is your principle defect?
Lack of motivation.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Marrying too young.
What would you like to be?
An admired, effective teacher.
What is your favorite color?
Orange.
What is your favorite flower?
For-get-me-not.
What is your favorite bird?
Peregrine falcon.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Marilynne Robinson, LM Montgomery, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens.
Who are your favorite poets?
GM Hopkins, Keats, Yeats, Louise Gluck, W.D. Snodgrass
Who are your heroes in real life?
My dad.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Susan B. Anthony.
What are your favorite names?
Naomi, Maude, and Minerva.
What is it you most dislike?
Clutter.
What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, Stalin.
What event in military history do you most admire?
Uh...I don't like war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Confidence.
How would you like to die?
A quick, fiery, painful death.
What is your present state of mind?
Restlessness.
What is your motto?
None.

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