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On Tue, 13 Dec 11 00:42:59 UTC markeff (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- I have felt miserable. I have never been actually miserable. I couldn't say...
- Where would you like to live?
- Right here. I've moved way too often in the past. I have developed a phobia of air transport over the years. I'm the worst traveler ever.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- harmony, peace, fairness,... I am a dreamer.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- My own... In others, I tolerate excessive benevolence fairly well.
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Jesus Christ. And most Shakespeare characters.
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Most were brutally murdered, they must have done something right then...
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- *under confidentiality agreement*
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Most are too good to be true. I hate sublime.
- Your favorite painter?
- Leonardo...
- Your favorite musician?
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Sergei Prokofiev, Mozart, Franz Schubert, Bach,...
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Consistence.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Consistence.
- Your favorite virtue?
- dedication, selflessness
- Your favorite occupation?
- logology ! I love talking about talking.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- I do not understand the question.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- An obsessive fear of being right... makes me feel like I generate indifference.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Their freedom.
- What is your principle defect?
- Overthinking things. Slow decisions.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- Not being part of anyone's life.
- What would you like to be?
- A better version of myself. In every respect.
- What is your favorite color?
- I like harmony. I can't single out a color in itself.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Jasmine for its heady fragrance, the rose for its evocative power. And dandelion.
- What is your favorite bird?
- Swan
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Shakespeare, Emil Cioran, Georg W.F. Hegel, Paul Valéry, Charles Péguy, Charles Fourier, Zeev Sternhell, Sigmund Freud, Noam Chomsky,...........
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Maurice Scève, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- *confidentiality agreement*
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Having only read the excuses of their executioners, I'd prefer not say. That's how history goes...
- What are your favorite names?
- Anaximander, hippocampomamillothalamocingulaire, syncytium, didascalia, Isabelle, Thomas.
- What is it you most dislike?
- Calculations & afterthoughts.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- I am not sufficiently educated to say. Thumbs up to Marcel.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- No kidding ???
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- Easy ! Omnipotence.
- How would you like to die?
- I won't like to die.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Dysphoric.
- What is your motto?
- As long as people take the time to say you're wrong, they care.
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