Proust Questionnaire: Zyg's answers

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On Sat, 11 Jun 16 03:43:18 UTC Zyg (65) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to live beyond your children
Where would you like to live?: within the mind of the universal creator
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to have many projects started and few completed
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those of science fiction,those who are time travelers and galactic explorers
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lord Shield Pacal, Salvador Dali,the Sumerian scribes
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Alanis Morissette, a woman of deep thought and deep emotion
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eve/Lilith, Ripley(from film Alien)
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Pink Floyds Waters Gilmour
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence and resraint
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and physical beauty
Your favorite virtue?: patience
Your favorite occupation?: sculpting
Who would you have liked to be?: the creator
Your most marked characteristic?: a good listener as well as a great conversationalist
What do you most value in your friends?: respect for differing opinions
What is your principle defect?: procrastination and overachieving
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To survive my child
What would you like to be?: Myself as the greatest artist of the century
What is your favorite color?: Mayan blue
What is your favorite flower?: orchid
What is your favorite bird?: quetzal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: at the moment, prose is irellevant
Who are your favorite poets?: Alanis M., Beck, Roger Waters
Who are your heroes in real life?: my daughter
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eve/Lilith/Mother Natur/Gaia
What are your favorite names?: Maya, Zyg, Deb
What is it you most dislike?: arrogance and selfcenteredness
What historical figures do you most despise?: the ones that do not deserve a history
What event in military history do you most admire?: my own enlistment, and any event that prevent a war from occuring in the first place
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: to play a musical instrument as a virtuoso, guitarist, pianist, etc.
How would you like to die?: remembered for contributing on a massive scale to society
What is your present state of mind?: a state of flux, changing with the passage of time
What is your motto?: know thyself

The main additional thought would be that I am extremely greatful for having been given the blessing of creating life, and that life is manifest in the love of my life, my daughter.

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