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On Mon, 07 Jan 13 20:19:38 UTC oliviathunderkitty (63) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: watching a loved one suffer and being unable to help; being executed of a crime that I did not commit
Where would you like to live?: Where I am. Or in France.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to spend most of my time doing creative work and the rest with people and animals I love, around a dinner table, with great conversation and good music in the background
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: procrastination, self-doubt
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Heathcliff, Jack Bauer, Mr. Darcy, Richard Bellamy, Captain Wentworth, Richard Kimble
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, JFK, RFK, Rosa Parks, Lucy Stone, Thomas Hardy
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Jacqueline Kennedy, Jackie Spears, Queen Emma, Lili'uokalani, Queen Kapi'olani
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Eustacia Vye, Cathy Earnshaw, Hazel Bellamy, Hi'iakaikapoliopele, Pele
Your favorite painter?: Mary Linnea Vaughan
Your favorite musician?: impossible to choose
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, morality, strength, kindness, creativity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence, morality, strength, kindness, creativity
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness to all, empathy, generosity
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, dancing, thinking, reading, cooking, sewing, hanging out with animals whenever possible
Who would you have liked to be?: a child who knew her father, Wayne's wife
Your most marked characteristic?: Curiosity
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty, warmth, intelligence, kindness
What is your principle defect?: I am a spendthrift and tend to be a bit thin-skinned.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Not to have had my children; to live in a world without novacaine
What would you like to be?: a property owner;
What is your favorite color?: several shades of red, midnight blue, lava orange, smoke gray, black, natural shades ofgreen
What is your favorite flower?: lehua, calla lily, plumeria
What is your favorite bird?: the crow, the raven, the Kauai O'o
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Marilynne Robinson, Emily Bronte, Greil Marcus
Who are your favorite poets?: Poe, Baudelaire, Olds
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mario Cuomo, David Kalakaua, the unnamed individuals who work to abolish the death penalty,
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Many women whose names I do not know.
What are your favorite names?: The names of those I love.
What is it you most dislike?: cruelty, injustice, greed, hypocrisy, oatmeal
What historical figures do you most despise?: The obvious one, Hitler and his cohorts. Pol Pot.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I admire certain outcomes but I can't say that I admire any military actions.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A beautiful singing voice
How would you like to die?: Quietly, in my sleep, curled next to someone I love, after a very long satisfying life.
What is your present state of mind?: Rather gloomy, after nearly three weeks of battling a nasty flu virus
What is your motto?: I don't have mottos but I do agree with "it's better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission?

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