Proust Questionnaire: FlameHorse's answers

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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:23:03 UTC FlameHorse (28) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The death of my sister.
Where would you like to live?: In the Appalachians.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Getting published, getting rich, getting that house in the Appalachians.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Good food.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Huck Finn, Aragorn, and MacGyver.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: King Leonidas, Jesus, Churchill
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: A woman working 3 jobs, who still has time to take her kids to Boy Scouts and help them with their homework.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Ellen Ripley.
Your favorite painter?: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Hudson River School.
Your favorite musician?: Bach.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness.
Your favorite occupation?: Walking in the woods.
Who would you have liked to be?: Any Russian who witnessed all the best parts of the Battle of Stalingrad, and then survived the War.
Your most marked characteristic?: I have an "I don't give a rip" attitude about most things.
What do you most value in your friends?: Their presence.
What is your principle defect?: I'm quite callous about some things.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Getting your testicles smashed by a sledgehammer, right before you lose your virginity.
What would you like to be?: A Horse.
What is your favorite color?: Green.
What is your favorite flower?: The iris.
What is your favorite bird?: The Mockingbird.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Thucydides, Cicero, Churchill, Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King.
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare, Poe, Dylan Thomas, e. e. cummings, Frost, T. S. Eliot.
Who are your heroes in real life?: The U. S. military, and police officers and fire fighters.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I don't really have any.
What are your favorite names?: Cassandra, Alessandra, Bucephalus, and all the Biblical names.
What is it you most dislike?: Stupidity, which encompasses many things.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Carrie Nation.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle of Thermopylae.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: An eidetic memory.
How would you like to die?: Laughing in death's face.
What is your present state of mind?: Imaginative. Always.
What is your motto?: Ago, ergo sum.

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