Proust Questionnaire: alabambino's answers

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On Sat, 15 Jul 17 06:03:04 UTC alabambino (32) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: unmitigated self-consciousness
Where would you like to live?: in a temporate semi-forested hill country
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: unselfconsciousness
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: faults related to a lack of opportunity or education
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those most unromanticized (like Coetzee's D. Lurie)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: those who won approval for breaking the rules by being undeniable
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: women raising children with a career
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those women who persist
Your favorite painter?: Clyfford Still
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: generosity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: confidence
Your favorite virtue?: kindness
Your favorite occupation?: uninterrupted design
Who would you have liked to be?: philip johnson
Your most marked characteristic?: introversion
What do you most value in your friends?: independence
What is your principle defect?: selfishness or lack of self-discipline
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be unable to read social cues
What would you like to be?: myself, with more initiative
What is your favorite color?: colors with hints of other colors in them, but mainly greens and blues
What is your favorite flower?: peonies
What is your favorite bird?: pelicans
Who are your favorite prose writers?: E. Annie Proulx
Who are your favorite poets?: Mary Oliver
Who are your heroes in real life?: those who overcome
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: the women who flouted the rules
What are your favorite names?: they change by the minute.
What is it you most dislike?: blind privilege
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who did not defend the helpless to further their own gains.
What event in military history do you most admire?: any negotiation resulting in ceasefire, de-escalation, or truce.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: disarming good looks and undeniable charisma
How would you like to die?: without fuss
What is your present state of mind?: resignation
What is your motto?: Rules are for people who do not know what they want.

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