Proust Questionnaire: Nikki's answers

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On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:28:10 UTC Nikki (35) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Feeling alone
Where would you like to live?: The UK/Ireland, walking distance of the ocean
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Feeling loved
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The tendency to gluttony
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Heathcliff; Henry from The Time Traveler's Wife
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Boy, I'm not up on my history; I can't think of a single good guy who really inspires me!
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Margaret Atwood; Sarah McLachlan
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Claire from the Time Traveler's Wife; Catherine Earnshaw; the women of The Robber Bride
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Glen Hansard
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Integrity
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Hiking
Who would you have liked to be?: Sarah McLachlan
Your most marked characteristic?: I am who I am and can't hide or deny it. The refusal to put on a false front.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty
What is your principle defect?: Selfishness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be alone to the end
What would you like to be?: Proust answered it best: Myself - as those whom I admire would like me to be
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Lilac - smells the best
What is your favorite bird?: The tiny little yellow birds in the coulees
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Margaret Atwood, Margaret Lawrence, The Bronte Sisters
Who are your favorite poets?: Margaret Atwood & Dennis Lee
Who are your heroes in real life?: All the ordinary people who overcome amazing odds to go on with life
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Again, not really up on these guys
What are your favorite names?: Madeline; Emma; Isabella; Liam
What is it you most dislike?: Hipocracy
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler; any other perpetrators of mass genocide & warmongers
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Again, Proust has it: Will power and irresistible charm (among many others). Also musical talent.
How would you like to die?: Proust is good: A better [wo]man than I am, and much beloved. More literally: in my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Mostly satisfied; slightly lonely
What is your motto?: I Will Survive

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