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On Sun, 11 Jun 17 22:22:41 UTC midlandiania answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Meaningless toil, with no solitude, yet also no fellowship, whilst also feeling made to give a constant account of oneself
Where would you like to live?: In a flat where I can bang nails in the wall, be alone, be with friends, and easily reach a city centre and countryside
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: That the rest of my life was arranged to allow me to spend most of my time reading, drawing, painting, writing, listening to music, exploring, cycling
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Wallowing
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Don Quixote, Walter Mitty, John Trenchard
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I'm very partial to 18th/19th century non-conformists who drove the Industrial Revolution
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who either create for creativity's sake, or who turn that to the public good
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Caroline Rose and Fleur Talbot (both creations of Muriel Spark)
Your favorite painter?: Stanley Spencer
Your favorite musician?: Everyone who is not Chris De Burgh
The quality you most admire in a man?: A feminine side (either in a deep, sincere way, or humourously)
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Self-definition, sense of humour
Your favorite virtue?: Humility, perhaps
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, drawing, cycling, listening to music or radio comedy (or: to be creating, or appreciating the things others have created)
Who would you have liked to be?: A glam rock or synth pop musician
Your most marked characteristic?: A burning desire to be doing something wonderful
What do you most value in your friends?: That they can strike the balance between leaving me alone, and not leaving me to my own devices for too long
What is your principle defect?: A lack of direction that can often spiral into social isolation
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live in Swindon
What would you like to be?: A better version of myself
What is your favorite color?: Though I understand that colours work as harmonies and contrasts, to other people I am most associated with blue
What is your favorite flower?: Whatever flower is the in-season wildflower that catches the feeling of the moment. As an image or symbol, though, the rose.
What is your favorite bird?: Phoenix
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Muriel Spark, Christopher Isherwood, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, J.G. Ballard
Who are your favorite poets?: Clare, Betjeman, Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: I think all my heroes are fictional
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Lady Godiva, The Suffragettes
What are your favorite names?: I like names where I only ever meet one person with that name, and they own that name forever in my mind.
What is it you most dislike?: An unwillingness to look at something from another perspective
What historical figures do you most despise?: The tyrants, persecutors and exploiters
What event in military history do you most admire?: I don't generally admire miltary history
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Enough charm and composure to get me through job interviews and unfamiliar social situations
How would you like to die?: Fulfilled
What is your present state of mind?: Having to think about my own state of mind changes my state of mind
What is your motto?: I don't have one (I don't want one)

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