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On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:21:44 UTC maksimuchka (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire:
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- to be separated from those I love
- Where would you like to live?
- in a small apartment near Soho or Via Giulia
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- to be with those I love, with my books, music and films, near St James's or Pincio
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- all average fault
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Prospero, Caliban and Ariel
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Emperor Adrian and Jean Lannes
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Margaret Thatcher
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Alice
- Your favorite painter?
- Giorgione
- Your favorite musician?
- Gould-Bach-Hindemith-Wagner, Solti-Strauss-Hoffmannsthal
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- character and intelligence
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- gentleness and intelligence
- Your favorite virtue?
- no one
- Your favorite occupation?
- being another person
- Who would you have liked to be?
- another person
- Your most marked characteristic?
- stubborness
- What do you most value in your friends?
- kindness
- What is your principle defect?
- stubborness
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Never to have known those I love or loved
- What would you like to be?
- I used to have a self, but I had it surgically removed
- What is your favorite color?
- vineyards in early autumn
- What is your favorite flower?
- lavender
- What is your favorite bird?
- the hawk
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Bruce Chatwin and Michel de Montaigne
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Now Auden, sometimes
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Albert Hirschman, Isaiah Berlin
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Marguerite de Valois
- What are your favorite names?
- Anna, Claudia, Giulia
- What is it you most dislike?
- myself (before remuval)
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Ernest Bevin
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- La Belle Alliance
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- invisibility
- How would you like to die?
- better and loved
- What is your present state of mind?
- silence
- What is your motto?
- Nemo me impune lacessit
Animula vagula blandula
Hospes comesque corporis...
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