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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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