Proust Questionnaire: T. Christopher Cox's answers

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On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:18:22 UTC T. Christopher Cox (43) 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
Where would you like to live?: The French Riviera, Washington D.C., London or about a block away from my home, on Monument Ave.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be with my wife, to have the love of my children, reading and pursuing the art of living well.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: In myself? Vanity. In others? Pretentiousness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Jake Barnes, Jeeves & Wooster, James Bond, Tom Ripley, Richard Sharpe, Charles Ryder, Nick Charles...
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gerald and Sara Murphy, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Cary Grant, William Powell, Fred Astaire, Richard Merkin, the Duke of Windsor...
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My wife, Dorothy Parker, Edith Sitwell, Audrey Hepburn, Sara Murphy, Julia Child, Twyla Tharp ...
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Nora Charles, Lucy Honeychurch, Evelyn Carnahan, Lady Brett Ashley, Mrs. Emma Peel, Justine (Durrell), Catherine Banning
Your favorite painter?: Picasso
Your favorite musician?: Bill Evans, Joao Gilberto, Cole Porter
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, honour, elegance
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, dignity, elegance, adventurousness
Your favorite virtue?: Temperance
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing, travelling with my wife
Who would you have liked to be?: F. Scott? Evelyn Waugh? Plimpton? W.F. Buckley? Cary Grant.
Your most marked characteristic?: Loyalty
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, charm, light-heartedness, intelligence
What is your principle defect?: Intemperance, loyalty
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be orphaned and homeless.
What would you like to be?: The ideal version of myself that I see in my mind.
What is your favorite color?: Perhaps red
What is your favorite flower?: Calla Lily, Sunflower
What is your favorite bird?: The duck?
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wodehouse, Waugh, Tom Wolfe
Who are your favorite poets?: Baudelaire, Kipling?
Who are your heroes in real life?: Sara and Gerald Murphy, Alan Flusser, Ralph Lauren, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Cary Grant, Elliott, Fred & Elsa Woodaman, Matt Shoeffling
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Queen Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (the Queen Mother),
What are your favorite names?: Alexander, Josephine, Elsa
What is it you most dislike?: Slovenliness, spitefulness, treachery, dishonour
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Usama Bin Laden
What event in military history do you most admire?: Armistice Day, V-E Day, V-J Day, Thermopylae, Yorktown,
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Incredible intelligence, irresistible charm, confidence and endurance
How would you like to die?: Unknowingly, before my wife and children.
What is your present state of mind?: Agitated. I should be doing something else.
What is your motto?: Do as little damage as possible. Be kind. Dress better than you have to.

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