Proust Questionnaire: Ventricle's answers

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On Tue, 07 May 13 01:46:20 UTC Ventricle (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Knowing that I have not been a good enough son.
Where would you like to live?: England, always England.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To make someone laugh.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Gluttony.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Fitzchivalry Farseer, because of the extent to which he suffered to do what was right.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Shakespeare, who else?
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My Grandmother.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennit.
Your favorite painter?: Paul Klee.
Your favorite musician?: Bach. That one is even more obvious than Shakespeare.
The quality you most admire in a man?: A good sense of humour.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A good sense of humour.
Your favorite virtue?: Simple kindness.
Your favorite occupation?: Wine.
Who would you have liked to be?: Better than I am.
Your most marked characteristic?: Vocal perspicacity.
What do you most value in your friends?: Tolerance of my many, many flaws.
What is your principle defect?: The gap between the virtues I have, and those I want to have.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: The loss of my sister. Nothing will ever surpass it.
What would you like to be?: Consistently good.
What is your favorite color?: Blue, but never navy blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Self-raising.
What is your favorite bird?: Owls.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Charles Dickens and Robin Hobb.
Who are your favorite poets?: Wordsworth and WB Yeats.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Jonny Wilkinson and Roger Scruton.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Simone du Beavoiur
What are your favorite names?: Rioja and Sauvignon
What is it you most dislike?: Incuriosity about the world.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Stalin. I'm a socialist, but thats just mental.
What event in military history do you most admire?: South Africa's nuclear disarmament.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Maths.
How would you like to die?: Painlessly and quickly.
What is your present state of mind?: I'm English, it wouldn't be appropriate for me to tell you that.
What is your motto?: Any sentence including the word fuck.

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