Proust Questionnaire: Ursus M. H. Spelaeus's answers

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On Fri, 08 Jul 16 08:19:24 UTC Ursus M. H. Spelaeus (59) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Unrelenting depression and despair
Where would you like to live?: Paris in the 1920's
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by natural beauty in the company of loving family, friends, & animals
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Intense persistent desire to drop out of society (is that a fault?)
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Winnie the Pooh, Linus of the Peanuts comics, Siddhartha, Gandalf
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Buddha, Thoreau, St. Francis of Assisi, Ralph Borsodi, Helen & Scott Nearing, Helen Keller, George Washington Carver, Luther Burbank (also see list of historical heroines)
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: All women working for peace, justice and a better world. And Patti Smith!
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Galadriel, Pippi Longstocking, Glinda of Oz, Demeter, Persephone
Your favorite painter?: Eddie Owens Martin
Your favorite musician?: Jerry Garcia
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, openmindedness, ethics, kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, openmindedness, ethics, kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Peace
Your favorite occupation?: Philosophy, artistic creations
Who would you have liked to be?: A rock drummer like Mo Tucker
Your most marked characteristic?: Iconoclasm mixed with eccentricity
What do you most value in your friends?: Camaraderie, originality, humor, a loving nature, understanding
What is your principle defect?: Being immobilized by stress
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Either incapacitating ill health or working in a corporation, or both
What would you like to be?: A bear in a remote forest
What is your favorite color?: Purple
What is your favorite flower?: Dandelions
What is your favorite bird?: Chickens
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Jack Kerouac, Anais Nin, Alan Watts, Henry Miller, Poppy Z Brite, Red Jordan Arobateau, Sherman Alexie, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson
Who are your favorite poets?: Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Rimbaud, Walt Whitman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Who are your heroes in real life?: All people working for peace and justice and those who add beauty to the world
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Harriet Tubman, Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, Dorothy Day
What are your favorite names?: Moon Unit Zappa, Morticia Addams, Johnny Rotten
What is it you most dislike?: Violence, war, conformity, sexism, racism, homophobia, mainstream society
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Custer, Donald Trump, Westboro Baptist Church
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: An optimistic, confident personality
How would you like to die?: In my sleep in healthy old age
What is your present state of mind?: Curiosity
What is your motto?: Question everything

I am a very good bear.

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