Proust Questionnaire: Thambi's answers

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On Sun, 09 May 10 12:57:22 UTC Thambi (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Hopelessness, shame, loneliness
Where would you like to live?: Anywhere I please.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Freedom to go wherever I like and experience whatever I should.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Shyness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The dragons of the Temeraire books (irrespective of gender), Jeeves, Asterix, Fred and George Weasley, Lord Peter Wimsey, Psmith.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great , Sir Francis Drake, Mahatma Gandhi and Robert Falcon Scott
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Colette, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gabrielle Chanel, Jessica Mitford, Rosa Parks, Rei Kawakubo
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I assume 'fiction' includes film heroines too? In that case: Claudine, Juliet, Granny Weatherwax, Buffy Summers, The Bride, Lisbeth Salander (all of the previous three survived being buried alive), Becky Sharp, Sara Crewe, San (of Princess Mononoke). .
Your favorite painter?: René Magritte, Yayoi Kusama, Michael Sowa, Ronald Searle, Audrey Kawasaki, Ben Vautier, Vincent van Gogh, Francesco Clemente, Egon Schiele, R.K. Laxman, Fuco Ueda, Amy Sol, Aubrey Beardsley, Rene Gruau, J.W.M. Turner, Johannes Vermeer, Katsushika Hokusai.
Your favorite musician?: Yann Tiersen, Gheorghe Zamfir, Ennio Morricone, Joe Hisaishi, Serge Gainsbourg, Air, Gabriel Fauré, Oasis (pre-1997)
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A lack of fixation on what "women" should be like
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: Reading
Who would you have liked to be?: I like being myself, but if I could turn into an animal at will, that might be nice. It would still be me in animal form, though.
Your most marked characteristic?: A tendency to be antisocial
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Self-doubt
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Losing the people I love, and having to tolerate those whom I do not.
What would you like to be?: An owl? Myself as an owl, perhaps.
What is your favorite color?: Green, not pale green or shocking green but just green enough to be itself
What is your favorite flower?: Pansies, bougainvillea and white roses
What is your favorite bird?: The owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Saki, Colette, Roald Dahl, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dorothy L. Sayers, Naomi Novik, Nancy Mitford, R. K. Narayan
Who are your favorite poets?: Dorothy Parker
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father, Billy Arjan Singh, Jonathan Zittrain, Tim Wu and the Tank Man of 1989
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jeanne d'Arc, Boudicca
What are your favorite names?: Spotty, Squish
What is it you most dislike?: Wilful stupidity
What historical figures do you most despise?: Frankly, I despise some contemporary figures more- their behaviour is as bad as that of anyone in history, and they have less excuse.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't admire it, precisely, but World War I is a subject I find fascinating.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A louder voice
How would you like to die?: Happily, and without fear
What is your present state of mind?: Desirous of getting back to the book I abandoned to fill this out.
What is your motto?: “If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”- Lewis Carroll

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