Proust Questionnaire: picfxr's answers

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On Tue, 07 Jan 14 06:16:58 UTC picfxr (45) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to give in to addictions
Where would you like to live?: in my own home on a good part of undeveloped private land, mostly away from the general population...
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be able to educate myself and share in that education freely without worry of finances and to alway have plenty to read, to listen to in good conversaton and music and to be able to garden
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: gluttony and self deprecation
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Kris Longkinfe, Sherlock Holmes, Samwise, Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, Puck, Hermione Granger, Molly Weasly
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Richard III, Socrates, Elizabeth I, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock, Malala
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre, Hermione Granger, Molly Weasley
Your favorite painter?: John william Waterhouse
Your favorite musician?: Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence, integrity, compassion
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence, compassion, understanding
Your favorite virtue?: honor
Your favorite occupation?: reading, listening to music, studying
Who would you have liked to be?: a writer
Your most marked characteristic?: a need to be needed
What do you most value in your friends?: integrity
What is your principle defect?: gullibility
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have never learned to read
What would you like to be?: loved
What is your favorite color?: forest green
What is your favorite flower?: orchid, eria javanica
What is your favorite bird?: raven
Who are your favorite prose writers?: tolkien
Who are your favorite poets?: Wlliam Ernest Henly, Lewis Carrol, Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?: Abraham Lincoln, Richard III, my father, my grandfather, my stepfather
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie
What are your favorite names?: Eria, Lynne, Aidan, Aelric
What is it you most dislike?: dishonesty
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Mengele, George Bush
What event in military history do you most admire?: Joan of Arc's winning battles
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: will power and self-confidence
How would you like to die?: quietly and quickly
What is your present state of mind?: sad and angry at my father's diagnosis of small cell carcinoma of the lungs
What is your motto?: It matters not how straight the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

I am a mother, an educator and 45 year old cynic. have lived most of my life in Central and South America, though I was born in the US.

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