Proust Questionnaire: Vesan's answers

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On Tue, 02 Jul 13 04:54:57 UTC Vesan (33) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: giving up on your dreams and quietly awaiting death
Where would you like to live?: where everything is clean and free
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to possess little and to exist in concert with the earth
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: indecision and its resultant moments of inactivity
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: couldn't say - haven't read much fiction in adulthood
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Babe Ruth, Benjamin Franklin
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: those who seek and fight for equality
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: couldn't say - haven't read much fiction in adulthood
Your favorite painter?: currently, Rene Magritte
Your favorite musician?: overall, it's still Bartók
The quality you most admire in a man?: inquiry, independence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: inquiry, independence, but mostly being gregarious
Your favorite virtue?: honesty, to others and to oneself
Your favorite occupation?: discovery
Who would you have liked to be?: none other than myself
Your most marked characteristic?: uneasiness, discomfort
What do you most value in your friends?: tolerance/acceptance of my social foibles
What is your principle defect?: lack of focus
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have never been born
What would you like to be?: endlessly productive with boundless energy and imagination
What is your favorite color?: the most verdant green, though it would seem to be black instead
What is your favorite flower?: bread
What is your favorite bird?: probably Daffy Duck, in the early, incoherent years from 1937-1940
Who are your favorite prose writers?: it was Vonnegut for a time - sadly, I rarely read anything not historical or technical in subject
Who are your favorite poets?: i want to say Lord Byron, but I'm not quite sure why
Who are your heroes in real life?: Shackleton... no others immediately come to mind
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I haven't any idea
What are your favorite names?: I like so many different names of different things for different reasons
What is it you most dislike?: cliques (exclusivity), disregard for quality
What historical figures do you most despise?: I suppose those who have been self-important and miserly
What event in military history do you most admire?: that's a tough one - my feelings toward the military are a bit "neutral"
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: tight dance moves
How would you like to die?: having felt satisfied with what I've learned, accomplished, and given to others
What is your present state of mind?: terribly frustrated with where I am on this ride
What is your motto?: work with what you've got

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