Proust Questionnaire: Jay's answers

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On Wed, 06 Apr 11 21:45:48 UTC Jay (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be without purpose
Where would you like to live?: Near those I care about
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: The completion of tasks you have chosen for yourself
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Procrastination
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Holden Caulfield, the protagonist "Square" from flatland
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who reach 30 with their dignity intact.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I don't read many reputable books with strong female heroines. Juliet?
Your favorite painter?: Michaelangelo
Your favorite musician?: John Butler
The quality you most admire in a man?: pride without hubris
The quality you most admire in a woman?: humor
Your favorite virtue?: Is wit a virtue?
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, competing in games of strategy
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone rich enough to pursue whatever life he desired. A Rockefeller?
Your most marked characteristic?: Inability to ignore what is incorrect
What do you most value in your friends?: Attention, and in turn, frankness
What is your principle defect?: Selfishness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Leaving this life without raising a child
What would you like to be?: In a position to solve larger problems with my aptitude for analyzing large amounts of disparate data
What is your favorite color?: Blue, like the Caribbean
What is your favorite flower?: The red rose, it is a living icon of passion and love
What is your favorite bird?: Peregrine Falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Homer
Who are your favorite poets?: e. e. cummings
Who are your heroes in real life?: Chris Christie, Ricky Gervais
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: There really aren't many, are there? We've just now given them the chance, really.
What are your favorite names?: The individual gives their own name worth
What is it you most dislike?: Inefficiency and the banal.
What historical figures do you most despise?: I suppose Hitler is a safe choice, but there were a few Khans that would give him a run for his money.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The courage of D-Day. Merely thinking about it gives me chills.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Discipline, adherence to routine
How would you like to die?: Of something sudden, the moment my death is certain.
What is your present state of mind?: Wandering
What is your motto?: To others, you are what you do; to yourself, you are what you think.

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