Proust Questionnaire: ORK's answers

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On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:41:03 UTC ORK (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Betrayal by those closest to you
Where would you like to live?: In an America that realizes its theoretical potential, or, if that's not possible, Europe.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Feeling genuinely compelled to commit to something that serves a purpose greater than myself.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness and/or Fear.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The anti-heros, but also those men and woman ignorant of their lack of heroism in spite of their best efforts.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Every author. Woodrow Wilson, Sylvia Beach, Robert Kennedy, Michael Collins, and FDR.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The women who live in marriages that can never fully satisfy them because of their husband's failings, yet manage to abide for the sake of their family and the well-being of someone they love or once loved.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Molly Bloom, Caddy Compson.
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Moral courage, loyalty, honesty, and a sense of humor.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Moral courage, loyalty, honesty, and a sense of humor.
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing.
Who would you have liked to be?: An heir to an enormous fortune.
Your most marked characteristic?: Sense of humor.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty or Devotion.
What is your principle defect?: Lack of will or lack of self-esteem.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lack the will and the means to do what it is I know I must do.
What would you like to be?: Happy.
What is your favorite color?: Green.
What is your favorite flower?: Hymen--that's a flower right?
What is your favorite bird?: Blue heron, peregrine falcon, or peacock.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Joyce, David Foster Wallace, and Fitzgerald.
Who are your favorite poets?: Whitman, Dante, Hopkins, Keats, Eliot, Crane, Bishop, Dickinson, and C.K. Williams.
Who are your heroes in real life?: N/A
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sylvia Beach.
What are your favorite names?: Those that belong to people who respond when I call them at loud.
What is it you most dislike?: Myself.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Nixon, Reagan, Roy Cohn, and Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: None.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Self esteem.
How would you like to die?: Unaware.
What is your present state of mind?: Sad.
What is your motto?: Mottos change, so should you.

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