Proust Questionnaire: ejb's answers

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On Fri, 12 Nov 10 18:40:19 UTC ejb (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: guilt
Where would you like to live?: Amherst, MA, among all the new poets who speak to me
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: poetry/art
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: hyperbole
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Patricia Highsmith's Guy Haines, who lives a life racked with guilt and terror, but keeps on living
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The Beats, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, June Miller
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: the women who are brave enough to not wear makeup, the women who do not care if they are attractive to a man
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Anne Shirley ,who taught me intelligence is an intensely attractive trait in a woman.
Your favorite painter?: Miro
Your favorite musician?: The Notorious BIG
The quality you most admire in a man?: kindness toward women, passion, humor
The quality you most admire in a woman?: perseverance, kindness to other women, wariness of men
Your favorite virtue?: humor
Your favorite occupation?: farmer
Who would you have liked to be?: Anais Nin
Your most marked characteristic?: empathy in the literary sense, nervousness
What do you most value in your friends?: empathy to my situation, intelligence
What is your principle defect?: anxiety
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: dying a virgin, never having smoked a cigarette
What would you like to be?: satisfied with my creative work
What is your favorite color?: depends on the object
What is your favorite flower?: cactus
What is your favorite bird?: parakeet
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Michael Chabon, Margaret Atwood
Who are your favorite poets?: Dorothea Lasky, Mike Young, Gabe Durham, Daniel Bailey
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mike Henry, Adam Chamy
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Anais Nin
What are your favorite names?: Pilar
What is it you most dislike?: guilt, anxiety, stupid women, sexist men
What historical figures do you most despise?: Savonarola
What event in military history do you most admire?: any signing of a peace treaty, when the japanese declared they would never use nuclear bombs
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: absurd physical beauty
How would you like to die?: without anxiety
What is your present state of mind?: inactive
What is your motto?: if you are going through hell, keep going

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