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On Sun, 31 Oct 10 23:55:35 UTC jameson_welsh (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- Mediocrity
- Where would you like to live?
- Italy
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- To love and be loved, to learn, to earn respect through accomplishment, and to be true to oneself
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Indolence, hedonism
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Lucky Jim, Oddyseus, Drusus Achamian, Char Aznable
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Jefferson, Cicero, Ceasar, Saladin, Trotsky, Churchill, Bonaparte, many others
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Rosa Luxemburg, George Eliott
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Proust said it best: those who are more than women without ceasing to be womanly
- Your favorite painter?
- David
- Your favorite musician?
- Beethoven
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Integrity
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Integrity
- Your favorite virtue?
- Honour
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading and writing
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Ceasar
- Your most marked characteristic?
- A desire to be praised and a loathing of that desire
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Integrity
- What is your principle defect?
- Indolence
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- To have never known love
- What would you like to be?
- Happy
- What is your favorite color?
- Grey
- What is your favorite flower?
- The rose
- What is your favorite bird?
- The duck
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Right now Kingsley Amis, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, and Nicollo Machiavelli
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Keats, Shakespeare, Shelley, Yeats, and Auden
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Christopher Hitchens, Gwynne Dyer
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Empress Matilda, Queen Melisande
- What are your favorite names?
- Aethelwolf, Constantine, Britannicus
- What is it you most dislike?
- Ignorance
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Clerics of all stripes
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Austerlitz, Gaugamela, Pharsalus
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Oscar Wilde's wit
- How would you like to die?
- To a purpose
- What is your present state of mind?
- Speculative
- What is your motto?
- Pax Quaeriturum Bello
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