Proust Questionnaire: dmca's answers

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On Fri, 16 Dec 11 10:03:44 UTC dmca (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The feeling of lonelieness
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere that feels safe and tranquil
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: What Proust said--sans the theater (surrounded by love and peace, never feeling lonely)
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: All of them. My greatest indulgence is fault.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: I don't know
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I don't follow history
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The amazing women who have come to be my friends and inspirations later in life
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: See above
Your favorite painter?: Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Aimee Mann
The quality you most admire in a man?: Integrity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Integrity
Your favorite virtue?: Integrity. It leads to trust and all other values/virtues/emotions are based on trust.
Your favorite occupation?: Absorption of all things new--places, people, experiences. To wander. To explore. To learn
Who would you have liked to be?: Mark Twain
Your most marked characteristic?: Boldness
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty/loyalty/dependability/integrity--all as one
What is your principle defect?: Boldness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never known love
What would you like to be?: My best self. Without the negatives, burdens, scars
What is your favorite color?: Charcoal gray
What is your favorite flower?: I don't have one
What is your favorite bird?: I love many birds. The majesty of birds of prey. The memory of a simple Robin in spring
Who are your favorite prose writers?: ?
Who are your favorite poets?: I'm a sucker for the simple solitude of Robert Frost--as cliche as it is. And Emily Dickinson for being a trailblazer and a romantic
Who are your heroes in real life?: My Grandfather and 2-3 strong, inspiring (unamed) female friends in my life
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any women that managed to make the history books despite the odds
What are your favorite names?: Grace
What is it you most dislike?: What he said. And injustice.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those that rose through no just cause
What event in military history do you most admire?: I hate war. I admire the many veterans in my family and my life.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Beauty
How would you like to die?: Quickly and painlessly. And not alone.
What is your present state of mind?: See Proust. And pensive because of same.
What is your motto?: It is what it is

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