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On Wed, 08 Mar 17 19:00:38 UTC MissO (41) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Living in unceasing physical pain
Where would you like to live?
somewhere warm all year round but where there are no rats or cockroaches
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Books, music and conversations with interesting people and playing a lot of tennis
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
crippling self-doubt paired with contempt for the general population and the accepted social norms
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Jeeves,King Lear, Huckleberry Finn
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Isaac Newton, Henry VIII
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mom, Edith Wharton, Billy Jean King, Serena Williams, thinking women, women who question the social norm and status quo and don't give a fuck about their detractors
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Lily Bart, Countess Ollenska, Portia from the Merchant of Venis
Your favorite painter?
Edward Degas
Your favorite musician?
JS Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?
confidence in himself and respect for others, knows what he wants and knows how to get it, steadiness
The quality you most admire in a woman?
intelligence and resilience
Your favorite virtue?
compassion
Your favorite occupation?
reading, people watching, physical activity of some kind
Who would you have liked to be?
Edith Wharton
Your most marked characteristic?
sensation seeking
What do you most value in your friends?
loyalty and sense of morality
What is your principle defect?
self-doubt
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
brain damage/disease of some type that renders my life not worth living
What would you like to be?
me and be contet with me. to reach a level of self acceptance
What is your favorite color?
black
What is your favorite flower?
poppies
What is your favorite bird?
Owls, do not like any other birds
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Flaubert, Nabokov, JM Coetzee, Edith Wharton, Elfriede Jelinek, Kafka, evelyn Waugh, Edward St. Aubyn, PG Wodehouse, Joan Didion
Who are your favorite poets?
I don't have one
Who are your heroes in real life?
no one; I'm against hero worship
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?
Ines, Saffron, Pablo
What is it you most dislike?
waking up in the morning
What historical figures do you most despise?
Donald Trump. Nobody will be able to top this idiot
What event in military history do you most admire?
when wars end
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
wit and self-assuredness (not giving a fuck about how the society views me)
How would you like to die?
with contentment
What is your present state of mind?
restless
What is your motto?
relax and have some fun but mostly relax

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