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On Tue, 25 May 10 23:37:33 +0000 Murphy (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Lack of success, loneliness
- Where would you like to live?
- Cork, by the sea
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Reciprocal love, success in personal pursuits
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Arrogance, guilt
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Stephen Daedalus, Ferdinand (Journey to the End of the Night), Holden Caulfield
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Michael Collins, Eamonn de Valera, Wolfe Tone, Kevin Barry, St. Patrick, St. Christopher, Napoleon, Karl Marx, St. Francis of Assisi, Lao Tzu, Chuang-Tsu, Buddha, Jesus
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Sinead O' Connor, Shelagh Delaney
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Molly Bloom, Juliet
- Your favorite painter?
- Jack Yeats
- Your favorite musician?
- Shane MacGowan
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Wisdom
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence
- Your favorite virtue?
- Patience
- Your favorite occupation?
- Music/writing
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Noel Gallagher
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Strong-headedness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Respect, loyalty, humour
- What is your principle defect?
- Short-temper, arrogance
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Failure in personal pursuits, loneliness
- What would you like to be?
- A famous musicians or writer
- What is your favorite color?
- Green
- What is your favorite flower?
- Rose
- What is your favorite bird?
- Pigeon
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Joyce, Celine, Genet, Lewis, Wallace, Dickens, McCabe
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Yeats, Mangan, Heaney, Larkin, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Campbell, Coleridge, Blake, Traherne, Shakespeare, Lorca, Bertrand, Mallarme, Mayakovsky, Pound, Eliot, Sassoon, Bukowski
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Shane MacGowan, Noel Gallagher, Seamus Heaney, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, John Lydon, Patrick McCabe, Neil Jordan
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Emily Pankhurst, Rosa Parks
- What are your favorite names?
- Christine, Frances, James, Peter, Charlotte, Anthony
- What is it you most dislike?
- Ignorance
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Cromwell, Hitler, Thatcher
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Irish War of Independence
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Strong imagination
- How would you like to die?
- Surrounded by loved ones, in a changed world
- What is your present state of mind?
- Apprehension, nervousness, insecurity
- What is your motto?
- The light at the end of the tunnel is that of an oncoming train
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