Proust Questionnaire: Finokio's answers

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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:38:40 UTC Finokio (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To get everything I ever wanted without any trouble... I believe this answer has been tainted by a twilight zone episode...
Where would you like to live?: Regardless of where I live I still have to figure out how to live, but a country where there is an illusion of safelty and freedome
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being completely connected and engaged in what I have to do... It takes me above whatever is irritating my state of mind
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I am right... you must be wrong because you made me challenge my ideas
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Almustafa - The prophet
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Voltaire and his ability to befriend kings, then telling his truth made them all enemies in the end
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mama :)
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Psyche... deliverance through submission
Your favorite painter?: Currently Joe Phillips who takes classic American icons and updates them with current sensibilities
Your favorite musician?: Daren Hayes
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness, the physical shape of a man has always been my weakness...
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength . intelligence, moral fiber... all the qualities typically and unfortunately associated with great men
Your favorite virtue?: This is more of a circumstantial question for me... currently my favorite is honesty but it has not always been the case
Your favorite occupation?: I like to read... a lot .... having greater and brighter thinkers push themselves into my mind is breathtaking at times
Who would you have liked to be?: I have yet too see a life lived that I would like to have...
Your most marked characteristic?: A need to be understood, unfortunately on my own terms
What do you most value in your friends?: Boundaries... Nothing can be experienced without the space to experience it
What is your principle defect?: Lack of knowledge
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: realizing what you have lost
What would you like to be?: Proust is right on this one... being yourself is what it is all about in the end
What is your favorite color?: Red is my favorite colour
What is your favorite flower?: a mind in full bloom, flowers only nourish the eye
What is your favorite bird?: one that is free
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I fear I am not well educated in prose to answer this question
Who are your favorite poets?: Bill Bissett - he taught me to swim
Who are your heroes in real life?: Every time I name a hero their humanity makes me regret
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: anyone who brings inequalities to the surface
What are your favorite names?: Phelix
What is it you most dislike?: Senseless violonce
What historical figures do you most despise?: the advocates of what I most dislike
What event in military history do you most admire?: The lessons learned
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Can you possess a gift??? does it not end up possessing and defining you?
How would you like to die?: Pass
What is your present state of mind?: Painfully vulnerable
What is your motto?: Watch and Learn

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