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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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