Proust Questionnaire: Francisca Bastos's answers

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On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:44:31 UTC Francisca Bastos (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: not being able to feel
Where would you like to live?: a place with no mobile phones in which we could touch the sky and make it sing
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to live near those people i've met in my life who make me want to wake up each morning.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: those who make you feel ingratitude. those when people really make an effort and just don't succeed
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: when fiction is not realistic, it's not worthy. anyway I like "Kevin Dillon" from the movie "The mighty".
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Gandhi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mother, Maria Alice (someone I'll never forget)
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: all of those who show determination towards their goals in life. Women are strenght.
Your favorite painter?: not an expert but I like Munch
Your favorite musician?: Wagner and Puccini (sorry, I had to put 2)
The quality you most admire in a man?: perseverance and intelligence.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: determination.
Your favorite virtue?: dreamer
Your favorite occupation?: listening to music
Who would you have liked to be?: I'd love to have Virginia Wolf's geniality.
Your most marked characteristic?: determination
What do you most value in your friends?: genuineness and unspoilable delivery to friendship
What is your principle defect?: lack of pacience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not knowing what music and art in general is.
What would you like to be?: me in the most transparente and consistent way
What is your favorite color?: dark blue. what a calmative sensation
What is your favorite flower?: those I received on valentine's day in 2008
What is your favorite bird?: the swallow. I'd love to come and go as they're able to do.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: José Saramago and Milan Kundera
Who are your favorite poets?: Fernando Pessoa (Ricardo Reis)
Who are your heroes in real life?: Professor Pedro Silva (my bassoon teacher) and my father for taking care of me
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: my mother and Maria Alice.
What are your favorite names?: Núria and David
What is it you most dislike?: dum people by personal choice
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler and Salazar
What event in military history do you most admire?: Revolução dos Cravos (25th April 1974) - Portuguese revolution without blood after 48 years of dictatorship (by Salazar)
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: the gift of well organizing my time
How would you like to die?: not beloved but respected and with a clean conscience. and by the way, only white in my funeral.
What is your present state of mind?: marvelled with the dimension of Mahler's musical talent. (I'm listening to his 6th symphony)
What is your motto?: "a rotten-minded man demans everythings from the others, a good man demans everything from himself."

e-mail: xika.fagoteira [AT] gmail.com
MSN: franciscabastos91 [AT] hotmail.com
my portuguese poetry blog: http://enchantedmelodies.blogspot.com

I'm a 17-year-old music student. I play the bassoon.

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