Proust Questionnaire: beezer's answers

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On Thu, 15 Oct 15 20:43:48 UTC beezer (64) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be misunderstood
Where would you like to live?: big sur
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to love truly and be loved in return
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: love of the pleasure of food and drink
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: none, they are fiction
Who are your favorite characters in history?: budda, Catherine the Great, St. Francis of Assisi, Samuel Clemens
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: any woman the stands up to tragedy and goes forward with life
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: none, they are fiction
Your favorite painter?: on some days Pollack on others Renoir
Your favorite musician?: Mozart and Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: knowing himself and honestly sharing that knowledge
The quality you most admire in a woman?: honesty and a warped sense of humor
Your favorite virtue?: virtue is open to debate
Your favorite occupation?: sitting outdoors on a perfect day with a nice glass of Syrah and a new book
Who would you have liked to be?: a better version of myself
Your most marked characteristic?: curiosity
What do you most value in your friends?: honesty and affection
What is your principle defect?: impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have never been loved
What would you like to be?: a writer
What is your favorite color?: aubergine or deep violet
What is your favorite flower?: peony
What is your favorite bird?: raven
Who are your favorite prose writers?: e.e. cummings
Who are your favorite poets?: whitman and frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: any man that works hard for his family
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Catherine the Great, Marie Curie
What are your favorite names?: Loren, Tasha
What is it you most dislike?: pettiness in service to self-interest
What historical figures do you most despise?: Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin
What event in military history do you most admire?: Christmas truces in the trenches of WW1
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the ability to sing well
How would you like to die?: quietly after saying goodbye to all I love
What is your present state of mind?: inquisative
What is your motto?: I am what I am and that's all that I am

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