Proust Questionnaire: downtime's answers

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On Thu, 19 Jan 17 09:08:35 UTC downtime (63) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: betrayed without recourse
Where would you like to live?: in a better future
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a walk among blooming trees, or maybe soup
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: jacobowsky
Who are your favorite characters in history?: beatrix potter: elizabeth gurley flynn: florence nightingale: jane addams: jane goodall
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my friend mary
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Bathsheba Everdene (Far From the Madding Crowd): Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch):the grandmother from Gorky's autobography
Your favorite painter?: Mary Cassat: but generally bauhaus, cubist b& constructivist
Your favorite musician?: marta sebastyen
The quality you most admire in a man?: menschhood
The quality you most admire in a woman?: menschhood
Your favorite virtue?: menschhood
Your favorite occupation?: cooking, websurfing, walking
Who would you have liked to be?: a better version of myself
Your most marked characteristic?: laziness, cowardice
What do you most value in your friends?: conversation
What is your principle defect?: laziness, cowardice, lack of focus
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: if we don't turn the tide in politics and climate
What would you like to be?: a better version of myself
What is your favorite color?: plaid, seriously
What is your favorite flower?: plum blossom
What is your favorite bird?: crow or pigeon or gull
Who are your favorite prose writers?: gorky, dickens, leguin, butler
Who are your favorite poets?: anonymous (folk songs)
Who are your heroes in real life?: my friends
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I answered thia before but I will add Emma Queen of the South Seas, Alice Hamilton, Rosa Parks
What are your favorite names?: all the delicious names of the people
What is it you most dislike?: capitalism
What historical figures do you most despise?: the ones who hand over the world to fascism
What event in military history do you most admire?: how can I? But when people give their lives to save others, I do admire that
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: focus, energy, courage
How would you like to die?: later
What is your present state of mind?: worried
What is your motto?: persistence in adversity-though I do not ;ive up to it

these are hard times and these questions make me sad

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