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On Sun, 03 Apr 16 16:46:45 UTC a.o. (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be without love
Where would you like to live?: In a lush green place by the water with mountains and a city nearby
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To make meaning in art, love, and places.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness, despair, self-pity
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those conflicted but determined, honest, dogged, humourous, reflective, curious, and confused.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Hildegard de Bingen, Louis Riel,
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who speak truth to power.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Pussy King of the Pirates
Your favorite painter?: Francis Bacon
Your favorite musician?: Too many to list, no favourites, and always changing, experimental risk takers, those who make themselves vulnerable and create new sounds.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Sensitivity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Forthrightness, someone who doesnt suffer fools but happily entertains trifles.
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion
Your favorite occupation?: Making art
Who would you have liked to be?: A natural scientist
Your most marked characteristic?: A desire to make happy those I love.
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence and openess
What is your principle defect?: Judgement, pettiness, lack of confidence
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have not met all my friends, to have lived sheltered and settled
What would you like to be?: Secure, engaged, calm.
What is your favorite color?: The colors of the sky in California at dusk.
What is your favorite flower?: Bleeding Heart.
What is your favorite bird?: Owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kathy Acker, George Bataille, Maurice Blanchard,
Who are your favorite poets?: Rilke, Ariana Reines, Baudelaire, RImbaud.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother, all my teachers.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Angela Davis, Assata Shakur
What are your favorite names?: Octavie, Juvenal, Theodora
What is it you most dislike?: Base consumerism, ignorance
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charismatic grace
How would you like to die?: Understood, unaware.
What is your present state of mind?: Tired and bereaved
What is your motto?: No mottos.

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