Proust Questionnaire: FrankieSmash's answers

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On Thu, 20 Jan 11 11:31:25 UTC FrankieSmash (49) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: child beggars being taken advantage of
Where would you like to live?: France in the Age of Enlightenment
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Making my family and friends laugh and enjoy life
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Refusing to admit them
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Tristram Shandy and Jean-Baptiste Clamence in The Fall (La Chute) by Albert Camus
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Emperor Nero
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who combine bravery with flippancy
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who ridicule men with a light touch
Your favorite painter?: Marc Chagall
Your favorite musician?: Dead: G.G. Kapsberger (experimental Italo-German lute composer); Living: the Paraguayan guitarist Luz Maria Bobadilla
The quality you most admire in a man?: The ability to analyse situations and draw conclusions
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The ability to love their nearest and dearest unconditionally
Your favorite virtue?: To become ego-less
Your favorite occupation?: Exploring Renaissance music, discovering worlds through reading, translating and making sense of Proust
Who would you have liked to be?: The Italian lute virtuoso and composer Francesco da Milano, for a day or two
Your most marked characteristic?: a sense of humour and the desire to put things in perspective and the ensuing hatred of all kinds of fanaticism
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty and understanding
What is your principle defect?: Daydreaming
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Losing everybody and everything in an earthquake
What would you like to be?: A court jester
What is your favorite color?: Turquoise
What is your favorite flower?: Dark roses and forget-me-nots
What is your favorite bird?: The beo
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Musil, Tournier, Camus, Sterne, James, Proust
Who are your favorite poets?: Randall Jarrell
Who are your heroes in real life?: Elvis Presley, Andy Pratt (American singer-songwriter), Wally Tax (Dutch pop singer-songwriter), Nigel North (English lutenist) for their undaunted courage
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie-Antoinette
What are your favorite names?: Alain, Rumpelstiltskin
What is it you most dislike?: Gratuitous sadism
What historical figures do you most despise?: Emperor Caligula
What event in military history do you most admire?: Alexander the Great's decision to invade India, which led to his downfall
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Modesty
How would you like to die?: Unawares
What is your present state of mind?: Creative if a little fidgety
What is your motto?: Don't Worry, Be Happy

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