Proust Questionnaire: Pranaya R's answers

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On Tue, 19 Jan 16 17:36:49 UTC Pranaya R (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be unloved or be unworthy of any love
Where would you like to live?: In my mind
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be able to lead a comfortable life complete with the ones I love and enough books to read, films to watch and beer to drink
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Sloth and pessimism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Howard W Campbell, Jr, from Mother Night, who is prone to becoming different people at different times; and Hamlet
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Baruch Spinoza, Mary Shelley, Jesus, BP Koirala
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Sita, Lady Macbeth, Death (from Neil Gaiman's Sandman)
Your favorite painter?: Goya, Francis Bacon
Your favorite musician?: Bill Callahan
The quality you most admire in a man?: To be able to stand for what he believes in but also admit when he's wrong
The quality you most admire in a woman?: To be able to stand for what she believes in but also admit when she's wrong
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty and resolve
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone better than myself
Your most marked characteristic?: Honesty
What do you most value in your friends?: A willingness to listen
What is your principle defect?: Pessimism and a lack of faith in myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my ability to express myself
What would you like to be?: Someone better than myself
What is your favorite color?: Forest green
What is your favorite flower?: Bird of paradise and the hoya carnosa
What is your favorite bird?: The eagle
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Mahmoud Darwish, Cormac McCarthy and Kurt Vonnegut
Who are your favorite poets?: Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Hafez, Basho.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Kurt Vonnegut
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sei Shonagon
What are your favorite names?: Maya
What is it you most dislike?: Those who take pride in willful ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?: History is unkind to those who on the losing end so I don't despise anyone really.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The battle of Nalapani.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Musical ability.
How would you like to die?: Quietly and painlessly.
What is your present state of mind?: Thoughtful and reflective but slightly at a loss at realising that I don't know quite as much about myself as I thought.
What is your motto?: So it goes.

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