Proust Questionnaire: retroandi's answers

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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:20:14 UTC retroandi answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: being utterly alone and unable to trust even yourself
Where would you like to live?: In the Happy Valley
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: being surrounded by love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: those which ask others to leave them alone
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Odysseus
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Machiavelli. I fell in love with him when I was 14.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: those who manage to be strong in the face of life and all it's forces
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Psyche
Your favorite painter?: el Greco
Your favorite musician?: Gerard Lesne
The quality you most admire in a man?: courage, balls, honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: honesty, guts, style
Your favorite virtue?: honsety
Your favorite occupation?: reading, working on a project
Who would you have liked to be?: someone powerful/dynamic. Such people certainly had their share of grief but in the end it all paid off.
Your most marked characteristic?: Persistance sometimes bordering on tenacity.
What do you most value in your friends?: confidentiality and trust
What is your principle defect?: stubborness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to not be curious
What would you like to be?: a More confident version of myself
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: lilies, roses, peonies
What is your favorite bird?: owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nabokov
Who are your favorite poets?: Ovid
Who are your heroes in real life?: Mr. Murphey
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Theo, Laurence, Enoch, Alice, Claudia, Joel
What is it you most dislike?: those who I see as stupid or uneffective
What historical figures do you most despise?: Dan Brown, those who fought/fight against the right for people to have control over their own bodies & sexuality
What event in military history do you most admire?: I am impressed that one can fight and win a war in 6 days. Not crazy about the war but still impressed.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: self-confidence
How would you like to die?: Knowing that I had a good run and would do it all over again if given the chance.
What is your present state of mind?: lucid but tired
What is your motto?: know thyself

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