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On Tue, 14 Aug 12 11:41:27 UTC Subhartho (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To not have a dream; to be bereft of love
- Where would you like to live?
- Where no one lives
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To be in love with love itself, to want less of the earth and lesser of earthly happiness.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- To err in innocence
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Those who transcend beyond that cage of fiction and influence someone real.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- People who have a personal history and have also made history. E.g: Rilke
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- A woman who doesn't believe her own genius
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Those who let their lovers carry them away
- Your favorite painter?
- Rothko
- Your favorite musician?
- Silence. (Because it's from silence that all sounds originate)
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- His understanding of himself. (Or at least the pursuit of that understanding)
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Her understanding of herself. (Or at least the pursuit of that understanding)
- Your favorite virtue?
- To not take one's own virtue too seriously
- Your favorite occupation?
- The occupation that doesn't remain to be occupation for too long and soon becomes obsession.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Being and remaining as the sheer self is a challenge already. Ergo, I would like to be me.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Responding to beauty. (all other characteristics are acquired).
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Perspective
- What is your principle defect?
- The inability to translate love from all signs and languages
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To be a beggar of dreams
- What would you like to be?
- 'Myself' is already a hard thing to be.
- What is your favorite color?
- Orange
- What is your favorite flower?
- Virginity
- What is your favorite bird?
- Charlie Parker
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- I'm trying to be just that.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Rilke
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Sad poets who are now dead
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Women who fell for reckless lovers without ever turning back or without ever tallying the consequences.
- What are your favorite names?
- Surnames. Surnames tell a story. Names tell nothing.
- What is it you most dislike?
- A question too early to answer.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- None
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Independence struggles
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- a supernatural gift, if at all. (A man has no right to ask for a 'natural' gift. That's unnatural).
- How would you like to die?
- Alone and sitting up.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Annoyance at having to think about myself in order to answer these questions
- What is your motto?
- "Don't ever have a motto. They are either foolish, shallow, or are just meant to sound good"
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