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On Sat, 12 Nov 11 05:00:01 UTC Ms. L (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To have a free five minutes, finding oneself without a book, cigarette, or pen and paper.
- Where would you like to live?
- In the moment between sleep and awake when everything is possible.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- A table of people who love each other too much for absolutely no reason and enough food to be shared until we are all sick with love and gluttony.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- An inflated sense of entitlement.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those who are loved for not seeing that they deserve it.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Men who loved too deeply and charged blindly. Women who loved too deeply and charged after long deliberation.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Women who show their love to every person that crosses their path.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- A heroine who is the master of her own fate, who cannot be madonna or whore.
- Your favorite painter?
- The one with a spot of paint decorating themselves at any time of day, neglected or cherished.
- Your favorite musician?
- A cellist.
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Devotion to character.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Devotion to other people.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Kindness.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Sharing life with others, real or fictional.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I would have liked to have been taller or shorter, blacker or whiter.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A drawling voice that is easily mistaken for sharp or bored.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Their time.
- What is your principle defect?
- A lifted chin and a distaste for change.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- A life without knowing your own capacity for unconditional love.
- What would you like to be?
- Big and bright and blonde.
- What is your favorite color?
- Purple. There is no eloquent way to get around a love for colors.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Those that bloom in winter.
- What is your favorite bird?
- They all fly and I cannot.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Writers that can put magic into print.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- William Shakespeare.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- The family I chose.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Women who had everything and fought to keep it.
- What are your favorite names?
- Names that roll across the tongue like water when said in full, but pop like bubbles when shortened.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Waiting, nonsmoking cafes, and espionage novels.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Modern ones.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Fictional battles where the only dead were never alive to begin with.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Patience and work ethic.
- How would you like to die?
- With the knowledge of love, warmth, and child rearing in my bones.
- What is your present state of mind?
- A glass of whiskey and a pang of hunger.
- What is your motto?
- If you say you will do it, do. If you say nothing at all, you are lying.
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