Proust Questionnaire: Kunal Sen's answers

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On Mon, 27 Jun 11 17:59:11 UTC Kunal Sen (27) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be wrongfully incarcerated
Where would you like to live?: the English countryside
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: waking up a morning to familiar tinkles, voices and fragrances
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to not stop hurting
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Perry Mason, Gregory House, Feluda, Rusty,
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Wallenberg, Tutenkhamen, Father Damian
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Virginia Woolf, single mothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Anne Frank, Joan of Arc
Your favorite painter?: Vermeer
Your favorite musician?: John Lennon, Susmit Sen, Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: a subtle self-belief
The quality you most admire in a woman?: seductive melancholy
Your favorite virtue?: patience
Your favorite occupation?: writing prose
Who would you have liked to be?: five years younger, knowing what I know now
Your most marked characteristic?: that I live life a little asymmetrically
What do you most value in your friends?: the ability of quiet nurturing
What is your principle defect?: an amalgamation of intelligence and misery
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be forgotten
What would you like to be?: understood
What is your favorite color?: the color of the winter sky; blue and milky white
What is your favorite flower?: a dozen street-vendor red carnations
What is your favorite bird?: the talking parrot
Who are your favorite prose writers?: J.D. Salinger, Haruki Murakami and the lambent happiness of children
Who are your favorite poets?: Gulzaar, Joy Goswami, Sylvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?: Raoul Wallenberg, Peter Greenaway, Kurt Cobain
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Anne Frank, Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Alokananda and Paripriya
What is it you most dislike?: schoenfraun
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pol Pot
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle of Leningrad
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: an innate cheerfulness
How would you like to die?: incognito, unknown to those who love me
What is your present state of mind?: bored
What is your motto?: to believe

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