Proust Questionnaire: Tom G's answers

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On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:19:47 UTC Tom G (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be truly alone
Where would you like to live?: In a country with no prejudice
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be one with the world in which I live, and to experience the beauty of all those around me, with a vast selection of poetry and classical music
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To a life of greed and envy
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who express remorse following expressive acts of deviance
Who are your favorite characters in history?: A selection of poets who have changed the face of language
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman of great intellect who chooses to work in laborious fields
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who say the right words at the right time, and question normality
Your favorite painter?: One of abstract
Your favorite musician?: Elgar
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A maternal instinct
Your favorite virtue?: Creativity is the virtue I feel most akin to
Your favorite occupation?: Anything poetic, whether it be writing reading or critiquing
Who would you have liked to be?: Though it is an impossible to change who I am, I must say I would appreciate a life as Wordsworth
Your most marked characteristic?: A fear of the unknown, and an inability to allow sleeping dogs to lie
What do you most value in your friends?: A certain patience that takes a hard upbringing to develop
What is your principle defect?: A lack of the patience I prize in friends
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To grow to be a mirror of my parents
What would you like to be?: A poet of incomprehensible quality
What is your favorite color?: The colour of the grass, and an ambassador of all things that grow
What is your favorite flower?: The bloom of the lily is all that I desire
What is your favorite bird?: The blackbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I have none
Who are your favorite poets?: Ted Hughes and Charles Bennett
Who are your heroes in real life?: Charles Bennett, Vivien Goldman
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Boudicca
What are your favorite names?: I have one for either sex
What is it you most dislike?: My own lack of self belief
What historical figures do you most despise?: None, as without even the most despicable, we would have not progressed at all
What event in military history do you most admire?: The cooperation of nations during World War 2
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A garden of flowers and birds
How would you like to die?: As an old man, having poured my heart to my only love
What is your present state of mind?: Concentration through the fear of answering undesirably
What is your motto?: I have no motto other than, Love hit him hard like a hawk into a dovecote

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