Proust Questionnaire: encolpio8's answers

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On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:27:37 UTC encolpio8 (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Frustration of one's own dreams or abandonment to conformism
Where would you like to live?: Having traveled so little it is difficult to say, but I have a very idealized conception of Paris. If not forced to choose a real concrete place, I'd say a small and lonely house surrounded by mountains, with a lake and a forest nearby
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A free and unpredictable life for a spirit capable of living it
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To ignorance when it is acompannied by a disposition to figh it
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Raskolnikov, Maldoror, Julien Sorel, Encolpio, Harry Haller
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Baudelaire, Byron, Unamuno, Dostoievski, Lautreamont, Rimbaud, Byron, Jim Morrison, Kierkegaard...
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Madame Bovary, Medea, Antigona
Your favorite painter?: Rubens
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelectual deepness and beauty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Spontaneity and beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Tolerance
Your favorite occupation?: Being conscious of myself and of the world that surrounds me, and to feel that consciousness
Who would you have liked to be?: If I have to choose other than myself, I would say Lord Byron at this moment
Your most marked characteristic?: Physical, mental and emotional uneasiness
What do you most value in your friends?: Their comprehension, their love and their loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Apathy and inertia when they arise
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: True abscense of hope
What would you like to be?: A poet-writer
What is your favorite color?: Green, in this moment
What is your favorite flower?: I don't have one
What is your favorite bird?: Eagle, crow and owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dostoievsky, Proust, Hesse, Stendhal, Petronius, Flaubert, Goethe, to name some
Who are your favorite poets?: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont
Who are your heroes in real life?: Heroine, my mother, no one else
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Nobody
What are your favorite names?: Matilde for a woman, Rodia for a man
What is it you most dislike?: Closed-mindness
What historical figures do you most despise?: Lots of politicians and I dislike the creator of scientology
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Beauty, because the others i can develop
How would you like to die?: I wouldn't like to die
What is your present state of mind?: Discomfort
What is your motto?: I do not have one

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