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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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