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On Fri, 16 Dec 11 09:51:44 UTC Riley (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Having no hope of ever realizing the feeling of hope again.
- Where would you like to live?
- A large log cabin in a four-seasons wooded area located on the side or top of a large hill overlooking a lake.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- Sharing events with friends and loved ones, occasionally being alone in nature, learning something and achieving a task using that knowledge.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Mental angst.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Physicist Dr. Jonathan "Jon" Osterman
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Those who, even in times of great potential to execute their will, displayed a proper amount of self-control.
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- A woman with perspective who would take in and treat any person with the same love and warmth as if it were her own child.
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Stubborn toward opposition, soft and loving toward everything else.
- Your favorite painter?
- Van Gogh
- Your favorite musician?
- Frédéric Fucking Chopin
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence executed with tact and perspective.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Intelligence, authenticity and heart.
- Your favorite virtue?
- Any moral excellence that doesn't negatively impede on anyone else.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Scientific exploration.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Someone not famous enough to talk about.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Eccentricity.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Tact.
- What is your principle defect?
- Natural, occasional lack of patience.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- A capacity to know but inability to act; a paralytic frustration in conjunction with mental claustrophobia.
- What would you like to be?
- Myself - as those whom I admire would like me to be.
- What is your favorite color?
- Shiny? (Carbon & gunmetal.)
- What is your favorite flower?
- The Orchid.
- What is your favorite bird?
- The Crow, or the Chickadee.
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Mike Shinoda
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Emerson
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My grandfathers, my mother & grandmother, Al DePuydt.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Athena
- What are your favorite names?
- The same one my mother gave me.
- What is it you most dislike?
- My own worst qualities.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Those who have taken more than they give back, especially so when not out of necessity.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Most military events are Pyrrhic victories or miserable defeats. That said, probably Desert Storm.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Happiness.
- How would you like to die?
- Sometime after I have given back more than I will have taken from this world.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Mαίνομαι.
- What is your motto?
- There is no greater burden than great potential. True power is knowing you can, but you don't.
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