Proust Questionnaire: Todd 's answers

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On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:34:14 UTC Todd answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be alone and in pain.
Where would you like to live?: By the ocean.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Tangled in a passionate embrace with my lover.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Acquisitiveness of great art and great thoughts, at the expense of the real.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: He hasn't been written yet.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Jesus Christ, St. Francis of Assisi, Kurt Vonnegut.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Barbara Jordan, St. Theodora, Dorothy Day, Dorothy Parker, Djuna Barnes.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Nancy Drew?
Your favorite painter?: Peter Max, Andrew Wyeth, David Bromstad.
Your favorite musician?: Keith Jarrett.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Character, intelligence, humor, and a nine-inch penis.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A beautiful laugh, an Audrey Hepburn grace and mischievousness, and big beautiful nipples. (Yeah, I'm bisexual)
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion.
Your favorite occupation?: Sex. And playing the guitar.
Who would you have liked to be?: To have wanted their life, I would have to want their death. There is no one's death I prefer.
Your most marked characteristic?: Impatience with people (I'm sorry to say).
What do you most value in your friends?: That they understand me.
What is your principle defect?: No will.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my lover.
What would you like to be?: A saint.
What is your favorite color?: Purple.
What is your favorite flower?: Poinsettia.
What is your favorite bird?: The puffin.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, Edmund White, Kurt Vonnegut, C.S. Lewis, Ken Wilber, Thomas Merton.
Who are your favorite poets?: Constantine Cavafy, Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My parents and grandparents (of course), the passengers aboard United 93.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Already answered this.
What are your favorite names?: Scott.
What is it you most dislike?: Stupidity.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Judas, the 9/11 hijackers.
What event in military history do you most admire?: There are none, for they were all bought with blood.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: An indomitable will and the ability to sing, and beautifully.
How would you like to die?: I only want the transition to be as smooth and quick as possible.
What is your present state of mind?: Carefully hopeful.
What is your motto?: Contra mundum.

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