Proust Questionnaire: Nancy's answers

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On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:47:47 UTC Nancy (78) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To feel that no one loves me or evan wants to tolerate me
Where would you like to live?: In my present house in coastal Connecticut
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in good health, to contribute, and to have my contributions appreciated
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Impatience, honesty to a fault
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Socrates (Plato's version), Horace Rumpole
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Lincoln, Sequoah
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jo of Little Women, Jane Eyre, Dorothea in Middlemarch
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Mozart, Bach, Verdi
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty, intelligence, compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Honesty, intelligence, compassion
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, eating, travel
Who would you have liked to be?: A successful writer
Your most marked characteristic?: A desire to be admired and looked up to
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty, intelligence, compassion
What is your principle defect?: Too quick to judge others adversely
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To go blind
What would you like to be?: Who I am, but better
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Old fashioned rose with spicey scent
What is your favorite bird?: Chicken?
Who are your favorite prose writers?: E. B. White, George Orwell, Jane Austen
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, W. B. Yeats
Who are your heroes in real life?: None
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (again)
What are your favorite names?: Emily, William
What is it you most dislike?: Dishonesty and deceit
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin
What event in military history do you most admire?: The brave stand at Thermopylai
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Physical beauty
How would you like to die?: At an advanced age, clear m inded and without pain
What is your present state of mind?: Wanting to be through with this
What is your motto?: Fortune favors the prepared mind. [Louis Pasteur]

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