Proust Questionnaire: Z's answers

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On Thu, 26 Feb 15 13:12:31 UTC Z answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be completely at the mercy of someone else
Where would you like to live?: on a private island in another dimension of the multiverse that no one can access except me
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be completely free and unfettered
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Indulgences
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Power and Energy coupled with omniscience balanced with wisdom
Who are your favorite characters in history?: gods and goddesses of myth
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: no one
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: women who stand up for what they believe in, trample injustice, and claim superiority in a world of men
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Faure
The quality you most admire in a man?: Loyalty, intelligence, and a sarcastic sense of humor
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, beauty, kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Singing, writing poetry, painting, photography, learning
Who would you have liked to be?: God
Your most marked characteristic?: Intellect, blunt honesty, biting sarcasm, and talent
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, understanding, and self-awareness
What is your principle defect?: existential crises
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be immortal and eternally powerless held captive inside a little box
What would you like to be?: the essence of me
What is your favorite color?: all colors, but especially those of fire, electric blue-green, black, white, charcoal grey, acid green, and hot orangey pink
What is your favorite flower?: dendrobium orchids, peonies, lilacs, and tulips
What is your favorite bird?: Phoenix, Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Juvenal, Mason Cooley, Ayn Rand, Shakespeare
Who are your favorite poets?: Dorothy Parker, Poe, Robert Frost, William Blake, William Cullen Bryant
Who are your heroes in real life?: no one
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Byzantine Empress Theodora
What are your favorite names?: those with substance and symbolic meaning
What is it you most dislike?: captivity, both for myself and others - no one has the right to deprive any other of their freedom unless they first revoke their right to it by violence
What historical figures do you most despise?: all who have had a hand in the commission of genocide, those who have used or condoned (in any way, including silence) rape as a weapon, and any who manipulate, pervert, and use religion to their own selfish ends
What event in military history do you most admire?: the 300 at the battle of Thermopylae
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: proficiency in all languages
How would you like to die?: instantaneously
What is your present state of mind?: paradoxically at peace and filled with inner torment
What is your motto?: Rush in where angels fear to tread.

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