Proust Questionnaire: drift's answers

[Answer the Proust Questionnaire] [Answers by name or age] [Random answer] [Image gallery]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:46:12 UTC drift answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To not be liked or loved.
Where would you like to live?: Alone, in a secluded cottage in Blackdown
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be happy in my situation and left to learn and act as I choose.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: self-loathing
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Antiheroes, especially Holden Caulfield, but also David Copperfield
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Caligula, Charlemagne, Napoleon
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women smart enough to know the difference between woman and man
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Marla singer
Your favorite painter?: Stanley Donwood
Your favorite musician?: Jesse lacey
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty, and openness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: femininity that is natural, instead of affectated cuteness
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, conversing, manual labor
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone happy and intelligent
Your most marked characteristic?: something not right in my mind
What do you most value in your friends?: Discretion and self-awareness
What is your principle defect?: need for love and admiration
What would you like to be?: Happy, to change into my ideal
What is your favorite color?: I believe all colors have their place, but probably blue
What is your favorite flower?: star of bethlehem
What is your favorite bird?: barn swallow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: chuck palahniuk, dostoyevsky
Who are your favorite poets?: Rilke and Baudelaire, also Bukowski
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father, and my grandmother
What are your favorite names?: too many to recall
What is it you most dislike?: My own weaknesses
What historical figures do you most despise?: those who are intolerant and ignorant
What event in military history do you most admire?: Gettysburg, not so much admire as hold in reverence
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: cleverness and confidence
How would you like to die?: With much pain and glory
What is your present state of mind?: Embarassment and sadness that come with this introspection
What is your motto?: I fear I don't follow the motto I chose

Clicking on the left button will increase the likelihood of drift's answers being displayed as featured answer.