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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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