Proust Questionnaire: Xan Etienne's answers

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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:59:51 UTC Xan Etienne answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not be loved.
Where would you like to live?: In the 1940s or 60s.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by art, which is all things.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: depends. sometimes dishonesty (but only for positivity's sake)
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Grendel.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates. Malcolm X. Nefertiti.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my friends.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scheherazade. Beloved
Your favorite painter?: Jacob Lawrence. Romare Bearden. ME!
Your favorite musician?: Bob Marley. Jimi Hendrix. Coltrane.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Security. Confindence. Patience. Honesty.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Confidence.
Your favorite virtue?: Magnificence. Truthfulness. Wittiness. Modesty. Magnanimity. Courage.
Your favorite occupation?: Painting.
Who would you have liked to be?: Lena Horne.
Your most marked characteristic?: An air of mystery.
What do you most value in your friends?: loving kindness and patience.
What is your principle defect?: Shyness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Living a life without love.
What would you like to be?: Free to be myself.
What is your favorite color?: Purple!
What is your favorite flower?: Calla Lily.
What is your favorite bird?: the raven.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Alice Walker. George Orwell.
Who are your favorite poets?: Countee Cullen. Paul Dunbar. Claude McKay.
Who are your heroes in real life?: my friends.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth Catlett. Maya Angelou. Angela Davis.
What are your favorite names?: mine.
What is it you most dislike?: mistaken perfection.
What historical figures do you most despise?: any person that quelled creativity.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Wounded Knee.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power!
How would you like to die?: on a cloud.
What is your present state of mind?: creativly stimulated.
What is your motto?: Art is life.

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