Proust Questionnaire: altron2095's answers

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On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 07:21:06 UTC altron2095 answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be found by my mother
Where would you like to live?: In the land of reverie wherein dwells all inner music
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: fame, fortune, fancy, and fucking
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: crassness and vulgarity- all possess them
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: God
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Voltaire, Bertrand Russell, Genghis Khan
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My educators, those long-suffering matrons
Your favorite painter?: Max Ernst
Your favorite musician?: Clint Conley
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intellect and aspiration to grounds for self-respect
The quality you most admire in a woman?: humor and wit, indulgence
Your favorite virtue?: poetic sense
Your favorite occupation?: living in another world, whether musical. verbal, written, or dreamed
Who would you have liked to be?: someone I never met who had a life of supremely unremarkable circumstance, but little aspiration, and great fulfillment in empty gesture
Your most marked characteristic?: The need to be admired and given fealty and loyalty
What do you most value in your friends?: appreciation of humor
What is your principle defect?: a weak drive to create or change, lack of will to take action
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to seek without finding, and to die without having lived full and well
What would you like to be?: myself as my brother sees me
What is it you most dislike?: brutishness and dullness
How would you like to die?: in my sleep, of old age, with a winning smile and an erection

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