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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:39:51 UTC Dolores Nabokov (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Not being in love
Where would you like to live?
In downtown Athens, with a good view of the Acropolis
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Reading books by the sea in September, next to Pol
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
To my own vanity
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Any man in Houellebecq's novels
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Plato, Heidegger, Derrida
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Sopranos who lost weight
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Maria Nefeli of Elytis, Medea of Eurypides
Your favorite painter?
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Your favorite musician?
Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Discretion
Your favorite virtue?
Kindness
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, teaching
Who would you have liked to be?
Kavafis
Your most marked characteristic?
Being eccentric and annoyingly direct
What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty
What is your principle defect?
Being harsh, not accepting any excuses
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not having been looked upon while asleep by a man in full wonder
What would you like to be?
Kavafis
What is your favorite color?
Blue of the sea
What is your favorite flower?
Daisies
What is your favorite bird?
A seagull
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Calvino, maybe
Who are your favorite poets?
Cavafy, for sure
Who are your heroes in real life?
My sister
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Diotima
What are your favorite names?
Pol (but two others, too)
What is it you most dislike?
Betrayal
What historical figures do you most despise?
None
What event in military history do you most admire?
The creation of the Athenian democracy
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Endless beauty
How would you like to die?
Without my own knowledge of it
What is your present state of mind?
Missing Pol's arms
What is your motto?
Life has more imagination than humans

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