Proust Questionnaire: inez's answers

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On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:52:40 UTC inez (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: no returned love, or equivalent affections.
Where would you like to live?: a place with fine weather, less crowded people, food of my appetite.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to have the liberty to read, write, and appreciate art.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: too easily to fall into self-pity and self-love.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: seldom fall in love with fictional heroes, maybe those who are the traditional types of heroes, valorous, faithful to something, and fated.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Guan Yu (partly historical and partly fictional).
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: reticence and erudite
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: willing to sacrifice, or like a sad and innocent teenage girl going to abort her baby.
Your favorite painter?: so far, Caravaggio and De Chirico.
Your favorite musician?: so far, Mahler. count John Frusciante in if i could= =...
The quality you most admire in a man?: virility or feminine charms, otherwise, talent.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: loyalty, otherwise, intelligence.
Your favorite occupation?: none.
Who would you have liked to be?: it would be fortunate to be an Emily Dickinson.
Your most marked characteristic?: never believe in anything, thus seldom make rash definitions or to be astounded by others.
What do you most value in your friends?: they are quite different in qualities. i can often see clearly their merits and weakness, but with little moral judgements towards them.
What is your principle defect?: sloth, extremely ineloquence and ineffectiveness in human communication.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: eternal seperations with my mother (it must occur twice).
What would you like to be?: a worthy person to my mother, and a free one to myself.
What is your favorite color?: green.
What is your favorite flower?: no preference.
What is your favorite bird?: no preference.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: so far, Borges.
Who are your favorite poets?: so far, Hart Crane.
Who are your heroes in real life?: i count "real" as opposed to "fictional", so they are Francesco Totti on one hand, and on the other, John Frusciante.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: perhaps none.
What are your favorite names?: none.
What is it you most dislike?: i don't really hate things.
What historical figures do you most despise?: i'm not educated enough to say it either.
What event in military history do you most admire?: none.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: beautiful appearance
How would you like to die?: whatever, it makes no difference.
What is your present state of mind?: stuffed with various questions and issues to figure out.
What is your motto?: there are many...

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