Proust Questionnaire: LeonidasStokely's answers

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On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:42:18 UTC LeonidasStokely answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Not isolation, but loneliness
Where would you like to live?: In a cottage on Dartmoor, Devon, England
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To fill my time by bettering myself and the state of others, to never work to a deadline but until the job is finished, and to only and always spend time with those people and things that I love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To sloth, Sunday mornings in bed
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Sir Gawain and the other altruists who do not exist but are still to be aspired to
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson, King Leonidas and Harry Truman
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My grandmother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennett, or Rosemary in Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Your favorite painter?: Pablo Picasso
Your favorite musician?: Mozart or Louis Armstrong
The quality you most admire in a man?: Altruism, firmness, steadfastness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, good humour, contentedness
Your favorite virtue?: Selflessness
Your favorite occupation?: Admiring the works of people more talented than I am
Who would you have liked to be?: William Shakespeare
Your most marked characteristic?: Blithe innocence
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, trustworthiness
What is your principle defect?: Arrogance
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To die having dreamed much but accomplished little
What would you like to be?: Content
What is your favorite color?: Pea green and vermillion
What is your favorite flower?: Anything wild
What is your favorite bird?: The albatross
Who are your favorite prose writers?: George Orwell, Joseph Conrad
Who are your favorite poets?: WB Yeats, TS Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Who are your heroes in real life?: My father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Queen Elizabeth I, Rosa Parks
What are your favorite names?: Gloria, Alfred
What is it you most dislike?: Modernity and change
What historical figures do you most despise?: Bigtos, fascists and totalitarians; small minded people who were granted too much power
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Battle at the Hot Gates, Thermopylae or Agincourt
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Easy charm
How would you like to die?: Content
What is your present state of mind?: Healthy
What is your motto?: Always overestimate others, always underestimate yourself

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