Proust Questionnaire: ascetic monk's answers

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On Wed, 27 Apr 11 00:20:18 UTC ascetic monk (51) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Working a low paying, soul-killing job.
Where would you like to live?: Abbey Of Gethsemani
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: That first cup of coffee in the morning.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Over-eating.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Zorba The Greek, Tyler Durden.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: St. Francis of Assisi, The Blessed Virgin Mary, Jesus, St. Augstine, Nietzsche, et. al.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Patti Smith, Mother Teresa
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: All of them
Your favorite painter?: Goya
Your favorite musician?: Captain Beefheart
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, humility, compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, humility, compassion
Your favorite virtue?: compassion
Your favorite occupation?: drawing
Who would you have liked to be?: An artist
Your most marked characteristic?: Self-depriciating humor.
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty.
What is your principle defect?: Self-pity, lack of confidence, impatience.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not praying to God.
What would you like to be?: Whatever I was meant to be.
What is your favorite color?: Blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Rose.
What is your favorite bird?: Crow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: William S. Burroughs, Nikos Kazantzakis, Thomas Merton.
Who are your favorite poets?: Allen Ginsberg, William Blake, Walt Whitman.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Henry Miller.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc.
What are your favorite names?: The ones I can spell.
What is it you most dislike?: Working for money.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those in power.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle Of Little Big Horn.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Musical abliity.
How would you like to die?: Peacefully in my sleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Searching.
What is your motto?: To thine own self be true.

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