Proust Questionnaire: Troy Casa's answers

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On Thu, 14 Jul 16 05:10:26 UTC Troy Casa (50) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: that we move again to a new neighborhood
Where would you like to live?: Los Angeles, CA
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a slow walk in the woods
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: idle hours for which I know not what to read
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hardy Boys and Edgar Allan Poe
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Steve Prefontaine and Alberto Salazar
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Huck Finn
Your favorite painter?: Michelangelo
Your favorite musician?: Michael Jackson
The quality you most admire in a man?: Creativity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Courage under fire
Your favorite virtue?: Honor
Your favorite occupation?: Doctor
Who would you have liked to be?: Pete Rose
Your most marked characteristic?: ability to tame the tigress with words
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty in the face of my somewhat cruel demeanor
What is your principle defect?: will abandon anyone at anytime, selfishness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have had any my poetry published before thirty years of age
What would you like to be?: writer
What is your favorite color?: crimson
What is your favorite flower?: any that I can I eat without death
What is your favorite bird?: hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Castiglione, Rousseau, Thoreau, Paine, Mahfouz, Kundera
Who are your favorite poets?: Cummings, Neruda, Dunn, Sexton, Amichai, Tsvetaeva
Who are your heroes in real life?: Becky Green, Edward Hoffman, Dr. Francis Richardson, Dr. Robert Sobak
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc, Alan Turing, Henry David Thoreau, Thomas Paine
What are your favorite names?: Charlize, Sephina
What is it you most dislike?: Hypocrisy
What historical figures do you most despise?: Andrew Jackson, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco
What event in military history do you most admire?: Joan of Arc's victory at Orleans
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: irresistible eroticism
How would you like to die?: knowing my children are in a sound state of mind
What is your present state of mind?: listening to the Tour de France while typing these answers seems like cheating
What is your motto?: "Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent." --Dionysius the Elder

Samples of my poetry and essays can be read at www.troycasa.com

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