Proust Questionnaire: S.C.'s answers

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On Tue, 20 Nov 18 01:22:52 UTC S.C. (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Hopelessness of any kind
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere where life is simple
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have an endless supply of books to read, good wine and food to enjoy it with, and jazz to play while I do both.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Carelesness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who combine moral rigidity with compassion
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Bayard Rustin, Pius XII, Martin Luther King Jr.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: They know who they are all too well; I have told them repeatedly
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The ones who most closely resemble my real life heroines
Your favorite painter?: Lippi
Your favorite musician?: Fela Kuti
The quality you most admire in a man?: Self-discipline, humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Courage, indomitability
Your favorite virtue?: Charity
Your favorite occupation?: Reading and writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Anyone whose miseries are more tolerable than my own
Your most marked characteristic?: Inflexibility
What do you most value in your friends?: Patience
What is your principle defect?: Lack of consideration for others
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never have left home
What would you like to be?: Better than I am
What is your favorite color?: Violet
What is your favorite flower?: Red Rose
What is your favorite bird?: Cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Jack Kerouac, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, G.K. Chesterton
Who are your favorite poets?: Claude McKay, Melvin Tolson, Langston Hughes, Homer, Virgil
Who are your heroes in real life?: No one currently living.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, St. Martha, Mary the Virgin Mother of God
What are your favorite names?: For a man, Toussaint; for a woman, Jeanne or Joan
What is it you most dislike?: Excessive sentimentality
What historical figures do you most despise?: Salvador Allende and his abettors
What event in military history do you most admire?: Those which may be considered miraculous, such as at Loreto or at Badr
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charisma
How would you like to die?: A martyr
What is your present state of mind?: A wandering, distracted sort of state
What is your motto?: No man may do evil that good may result

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