Proust Questionnaire: KG's answers

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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:19:58 UTC KG (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The trap of depression.
Where would you like to live?: In the country, but near a city.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: The freedom to pursue one's fancies.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Fancifulness.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those that show resilience in the face of adversity and triumph even over their own flaws.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The dreamers.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who are wickedly smart and driven to greatness.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who are resourceful and strong.
Your favorite painter?: Rothko.
Your favorite musician?: Philip Glass.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Insight.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Insight.
Your favorite virtue?: Rational thinking.
Your favorite occupation?: Making things.
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself, only having made far fewer errors.
Your most marked characteristic?: Quietness.
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence.
What is your principle defect?: A tendancy to be unsure and unhappy.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Lack of education: to be unable to find the answers I seek.
What would you like to be?: Sucessful, happy, content.
What is your favorite color?: Green, any and all shades.
What is your favorite flower?: Lillies.
What is your favorite bird?: The Kestrel.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Italo Calvino, T.H. White, Borges.
Who are your favorite poets?: Ted Hughes.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Scientists, artists, and other inventors.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Women who pursued a life of the mind despite pressure to do otherwise.
What are your favorite names?: Those that have multiple meanings, and of course, that of my love.
What is it you most dislike?: Ignorance.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Those that manipulate.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The liberation of the oppressed.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charisma.
How would you like to die?: Quickly.
What is your present state of mind?: Content, but sleepy.
What is your motto?: Nec Spe, Nec Metu.

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