Proust Questionnaire: beezersneezer's answers

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On Fri, 15 Jul 16 22:13:15 UTC beezersneezer (46) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be irrelevant and obsolete.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere where there's hockey, internet, cool weather, and friendly people
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be a loving father, a wild creative hedonist, and traveller.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To be a full-grown man who still thinks he's a teenager.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are eccentric and a little odd.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Emperor Norton and Groucho Marx.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My friend, Renea.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Tuesday Next from the Jasper Fforde novels and Molly from Neuromancer.
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh.
Your favorite musician?: Too many to list.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humor and gentle eccentricity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentle eccentricity and humor
Your favorite virtue?: Comitas and veritas.
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, video editing, reading, imagining, and enjoying the company of friends.
Who would you have liked to be?: Immortal.
Your most marked characteristic?: An odd sense of humor and terrible self-imagery
What do you most value in your friends?: Their kindness.
What is your principle defect?: Low self-esteem, laziness, and fear.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To wish away my children.
What would you like to be?: A writer and traveller who never has to career/work a day in his life
What is your favorite color?: Purple. It displays warmth and passion.
What is your favorite flower?: That which still blooms in an ugly garden.
What is your favorite bird?: Male cardinals. The red is so striking.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Terry Pratchett.
Who are your favorite poets?: Richard Brautigan.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who make the world better and help us understand the universe better.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Margaret Hamilton, MIT.
What are your favorite names?: my own.
What is it you most dislike?: Hatred and pain and fear.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those who punch down.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Better to ask a military scholar.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence and tenacity
How would you like to die?: Saving the universe.
What is your present state of mind?: Very mixed, some happy thoughts, many sad thoughts, and feeling that time ticks away too fast these days.
What is your motto?: Fuck'em if they can't take a joke.

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