Proust Questionnaire: Lyndsey's answers

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On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:11:35 UTC Lyndsey (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Failing myself.
Where would you like to live?: A residential area with thoughtful architecture, within a reasonable distance of an urban center.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by a company of people I love who also love me; to be free to express myself in whatever form pleases me.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Constant fear and worry.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Hector, Scout Finch, Strider, Harry Potter.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: C.S. Lewis, Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: George Eliot, Mary Shelley, &c.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Orual, Eowyn.
Your favorite painter?: Sargent..
Your favorite musician?: Andrew Bird.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Kindness.
Your favorite virtue?: Empathy.
Your favorite occupation?: Creating.
Who would you have liked to be?: A photographer.
Your most marked characteristic?: Intelligence and wit.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness and genuine concern.
What is your principle defect?: No sense of urgency; constant procrastination.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To make a careless mistake that would separate myself from the people I love.
What would you like to be?: Wise.
What is your favorite color?: Red and deep plum.
What is your favorite flower?: Red roses.
What is your favorite bird?: Swans.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Kurt Vonnegut.
Who are your favorite poets?: Carl Sandburg, William Carlos Williams.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My parents, and many of my instructors, as well as a good chunk of writers.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sappho.
What are your favorite names?: Ethan, Elliot, Elessar
What is it you most dislike?: Dishonesty.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Not many, at the moment.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Not entirely sure, I don't keep much track.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Endless photographic memory.
How would you like to die?: Much later.
What is your present state of mind?: I am extremely tired.
What is your motto?: I don't have one.

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