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On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:59:04 UTC dbrown (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Hatred towards another living thing
Where would you like to live?: Near mountains, lakes and shores. I could never live in a city.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Sitting on a wooden porch on a balmy evening playing dominoes and drinking rum
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Insobriety
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those of adventure, strength and daring
Who are your favorite characters in history?: William Lever, Walt Whitman, and Henri Cartier Bresson
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Good women who love their husbands, wives and children
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who have the courage to love
Your favorite painter?: Jean Paul Riopelle
Your favorite musician?: Smokey Robinson
The quality you most admire in a man?: Strength, determination and humanity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Love
Your favorite virtue?: Courage
Your favorite occupation?: Tending my cacti and singing to my little canary, Frank
Who would you have liked to be?: Nobody but myself and I
Your most marked characteristic?: My happiness
What do you most value in your friends?: Love. Love. Love.
What is your principle defect?: A weakness of will
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live in the city stacked under and above people
What would you like to be?: A bird
What is your favorite color?: Green
What is your favorite flower?: Hers
What is your favorite bird?: Canary
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway, Thesiger, Flaubert
Who are your favorite poets?: RS Thomas, Whitman
Who are your heroes in real life?: Howard Marks
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Lisa Gherardini
What are your favorite names?: Guto, Haf, Gwenno
What is it you most dislike?: 99% of television
What historical figures do you most despise?: I do not despise.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The white flag
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: To run like the wind
How would you like to die?: In love
What is your present state of mind?: Calm and slightly bemused by this
What is your motto?: Cymru am byth

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