Proust Questionnaire: gracehoppin's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jul 16 08:26:27 UTC gracehoppin (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose that love which makes one human
Where would you like to live?: In a mountainous land with four seasons where the trees outnumber the people
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be in communion with fellow beings, human and inhuman alike, and to often become entangled in adventure
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Passive lustful aggression: an irreverent laziness that projects itself onto all things dear
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those semi-hidden persons who have been schooled in ancient lore and have treaded there where no other mortal has been
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The unnamed good-doers whose deeds have been so naturally fitting to their circumstances that they have all together disappeared from the record
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I am yet to meet them in the places where my courage might take me should I follow it
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Currently: Vanessa Ives and the healer Snake
Your favorite painter?: Mati Klarwein, James Jean and Fiona Staples are the first to come to mind
Your favorite musician?: Anyone who is able to reproduce that which is graceful, melancholy and fluid like the sun seen underwater or the dance of the grasses on a windy day
The quality you most admire in a man?: A harmonious blend of sentience and sapience in which spirit and body work towards a common goal
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Why should it be any different from that which is most admirable in men?
Your favorite virtue?: Being in possession of few virtues, I am a poor judge as to which of them is best
Your favorite occupation?: Anything that beats the laziness and drives me out of the egotistic mode of being
Who would you have liked to be?: A more attentive, energetic and steadfast version of myself
Your most marked characteristic?: An internal struggle that manifests in a quick wit and changing temperament
What do you most value in your friends?: Openheartedness and the love of adventure, be it inner or outer
What is your principle defect?: Lack of discipline
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To be consumed by hatred towards oneself and the world
What would you like to be?: A nomadic monad, a lotophage gracehopper
What is your favorite color?: The colors of sky, water, vegetal and mineral beings
What is your favorite flower?: Lotus, tree blossoms and mountain flowers
What is your favorite bird?: Those belonging to the corvus genus
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Those who produce magical realism and credible fantasy/ sci-fi
Who are your favorite poets?: Robinson Jeffers, Seamus Heaney, Kobayashi Issa
Who are your heroes in real life?: Travelers with a purpose
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Hildegard von Bingen, Alexandra David Neel, Machig Labdron
What are your favorite names?: A veritable legion they are, but these days, resounding in my mind are Vihra, Vrach and Semiramis
What is it you most dislike?: Apathy and hatred
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those ready to use countless other beings as means to a selfish end
What event in military history do you most admire?: What is there to admire in military history?
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Grace and discipline
How would you like to die?: Consciously, so as to manage my fear
What is your present state of mind?: Unfocused, crawling around the house doing small task in avoiding the bigger ones
What is your motto?: I do not have one

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