Proust Questionnaire: Kechiro's answers

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On Tue, 08 Jun 10 01:27:06 +0000 Kechiro (33) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: right now: The weight of the emptiness without my partner. It feels like something important is missing.
Where would you like to live?: In a large city much like San Francisco, with a cat or two that my loveliest isn't allergic to, with a great museum job that pays the bills and feeds the soul.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Completeness. Sometimes completeness is as simple as the morning paper and a chocolate cookie.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I'm a recovering catholic. I indulge nothing except the whims of others.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The Little Prince, Dagny Taggart, Prufrock, the Fool of the World
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Aleksandr Pushkin (I'd date him if he were alive - he spoke English, too), Mei Yaochen (a fantastic poet and a bit of a feminist), Tao Yuanming, Oscar Wilde.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Not many. Women aren't major figures in my life, for reasons I've never adequately explained to myself.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Annabel Lee, the subject of Elinor Wylie's "Velvet Shoes", the girl who fought off the Snow Queen, the White Cat (when she was a cat).
Your favorite painter?: Yikes. Frank Stella. Ren Xiong. Toyo Sesshu. Maruyama Okyo. Toshusai Sharaku, although he technically wasn't a painter.
Your favorite musician?: Warren Zevon. It all starts and ends there for me.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Beauty, a careful balance between intelligence and creativity, their fragrance, their determined walk, the way their bodies make perfect sense. Did I mention beauty? Is there anything more lovely in this world than a long haired man with a spark of wit ?
The quality you most admire in a woman?: When they are smart and choose not to hide their brains, they are wonderful company. Especially when they don't talk of TV.
Your favorite virtue?: Honesty, followed by bravery.
Your favorite occupation?: I have no occupations - I have passions.
Who would you have liked to be?: I can't imagine being anyone but myself. I wouldn't want to be anyone else.
Your most marked characteristic?: My unflagging devotion to what I know is true.
What do you most value in your friends?: their laughter. As much as I laugh, I don't do it nearly enough.
What is your principle defect?: An unwillingness to seek help when needed. I don't know how.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: The loss of my mind.
What would you like to be?: As in a nonhuman object? Why, I'd love to be a cat!
What is your favorite color?: Black. Goes perfect with everything.
What is your favorite flower?: Whatever my partner brings home. Also: Violets, some blue-black orchids, the smell of camellias (but not the flowers themselves).
What is your favorite bird?: The one I will have for dinner.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Pushkin. Jonathan Carroll. Good journalism. Excellent short stories (I have a fondness for them, and they're so hard to write).
Who are your favorite poets?: TS Eliot. Good rock music is some of the best poetry around.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My dad. Most others pale in comparison.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Are there any heroines who have been given the opportunity to reach her fullest potential?
What are your favorite names?: As in ones I think are simply magnificent, or ones I'd give my nonexistent future kids? Magnificent: Firenze, Hercules. Ones I'd give my nonexistent future kids: Tristan, Frederick, Shoshana, Kyrie.
What is it you most dislike?: Right now, I could cut the bitterness with a knife. I miss my partner and I miss the void that not having him around leaves. He is too beautiful and too much a part of me not to feel a coldness and a touch of anger.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Mostly they're in the past. I'm not worried about the past.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Does the Stonewall Riot count as a military action? they were militant gays.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Is flying a natural gift? I'd love to be able to fly.
How would you like to die?: Quickly, in my sleep, at the same time as my beloved. That way we will never know another moment without each other.
What is your present state of mind?: A bit frustrated, quite sleepycheese, lovesick and sore from my own sunburn.
What is your motto?: Thsi is your life, and you can neither live it for anyone else nor let anyone live it for you.

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