Proust Questionnaire: Mnemonic Aberration's answers

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On Fri, 16 Apr 10 06:49:39 +0000 Mnemonic Aberration answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be caught in the crossfire of a war without escape or safety
Where would you like to live?: In space
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have the security of peace and health and as many books as I have life in me to read them.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: ignorance that was imposed but not cultivated
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those who inspire the reader to aspire to greater intellectual endeavours
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Voltaire, Plato, Hegel, Magritte, the librarians at Alexandria
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I have none
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: those who inspire the reader to aspire to greater intellectual endeavours
Your favorite painter?: Magritte
Your favorite musician?: Holst
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, ethics and elegance
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, ethics and elegance
Your favorite virtue?: a questioning intellect
Your favorite occupation?: reading
Who would you have liked to be?: a version of myself travelling in space
Your most marked characteristic?: insatiable curiousity
What do you most value in your friends?: honesty
What is your principle defect?: lack of patience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: illiteracy
What would you like to be?: my ideal self
What is your favorite color?: burgundy
What is your favorite flower?: one I have not smelled in five years
What is your favorite bird?: The seagull
Who are your favorite prose writers?: William Gibson, Samuel Beckett and Voltaire
Who are your favorite poets?: Tennyson
Who are your heroes in real life?: real life is mostly devoid of heroes but Stephen Lewis and Muhammad Yunus might be the exceptions.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: the unnamed women without whom progress would have never been more than a hypothesis
What is it you most dislike?: ignorance and cruelty
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those for whom ignorance and cruelty were not mere character defects but realities writ large
What event in military history do you most admire?: military history is not to be admired.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a genius that is efficient and without limit
How would you like to die?: what a horrid thing to ponder!
What is your present state of mind?: forcibly introspective in an oddly directed manner
What is your motto?: question everything, scepticism in regards to all things.

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