Proust Questionnaire: ken's answers

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:40:46 UTC ken (58) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To work daily at a vocation I hate.
Where would you like to live?: Ecuador or northern Europe.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To love and be loved.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Fear of success/failure
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Characters who understand the inevitability of their personal flaws and overcome them
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Socrates, Gandhi, The Dali Lama, James Madison, Martin Luther King, Christopher Reeves
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My spouse, Debra; Rosa Parks; Golda Meir; Susan B. Anthony; Eleanor Roosevelt
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Zena, Warrior Princess; Lara Croft
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Rodrigo y Gabriela
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humility, ability to take risks
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Confidence, balance
Your favorite virtue?: Loyalty
Your favorite occupation?: Writer
Who would you have liked to be?: Strong-willed
Your most marked characteristic?: Ambivalence
What do you most value in your friends?: Empathy, loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Inability to "stay the course" w/o getting bored
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: If I believed I had lost the respect of my wife and children
What would you like to be?: Myself, sans defects
What is your favorite color?: (No favorite)
What is your favorite flower?: Tulip
What is your favorite bird?: Sea terns
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nelson DeMille; John Irving; Khaled Husseini
Who are your favorite poets?: Edgar Allen Poe; Walt Whitman
Who are your heroes in real life?: People with the ability to remain steady despite all sorts of obstacles
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: (answered above)
What are your favorite names?: Debra, Amy, Aaron
What is it you most dislike?: Disloyal friends
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin, G.W. Bush
What event in military history do you most admire?: My own escape from the Vietnam debacle
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Patience
How would you like to die?: At peace
What is your present state of mind?: Anxiety over the issues raised herein
What is your motto?: I may be crazy, but I'm no fool.

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