Proust Questionnaire: So's answers

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On Mon, 02 Jun 14 10:39:21 UTC So (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be left behind, abandoned, stranded
Where would you like to live?: In a small house with a big library
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To listen and to be listened to, to understand and be understood
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To faith, to happiness, to sarcasm
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those with whom I share the best traits of my character, yet manage to make so much more than I
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alienor of Aquitaine and Isabella d'Este
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women whose wit doesn't obscure their simple beauty
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who aren't either man or woman, but so much more
Your favorite painter?: Vermeer? I've never thought about it
Your favorite musician?: I honestly don't know
The quality you most admire in a man?: Wit deprived of callousness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The courage of being intelligent
Your favorite virtue?: Acceptance of other people's struggles
Your favorite occupation?: Stories, in any form they may come
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone a little less aware, someone a little more carefree
Your most marked characteristic?: An enormous sense of incompleteness and a constant fear of abandonment
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence, wit, charm
What is your principle defect?: Strictness, laziness, cynisism and mistrust
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To grow up in any other way than this, and to be this. There's no way out.
What would you like to be?: Just beautiful for a day.
What is your favorite color?: White that becomes dark gray when only a little light gets through the shutters.
What is your favorite flower?: It used to be a yellow rose
What is your favorite bird?: The owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: A.S. Byatt, Maria Bellonci
Who are your favorite poets?: T.S. Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: Anyone who doesn't give in to sarcasm
What are your favorite names?: Names alone mean nothing, do they?
What is it you most dislike?: Some days, the whole world
What historical figures do you most despise?: I don't think I can come up with an intelligent answer
What event in military history do you most admire?: If only I knew something on the subject, I'd tell you
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Inexplicable charm, devouring talent and a right to invincibility
How would you like to die?: Peacefully, safe and tucked away, knowing more than I do now
What is your present state of mind?: Confused, as always
What is your motto?: I have many yet don't follow any

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