Proust Questionnaire: Mike G.'s answers

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On Thu, 18 Nov 10 02:58:46 UTC Mike G. (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Fear born from uncertainty
Where would you like to live?: In a healthy and productive delta at a great river's end
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To work and love in communion with the earth. Husbandry.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Ingratitude
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who strive to transcend the absurd without losing their own capacity for kind humor: Huckleberry Finn, Cornelius Suttree
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Theodore Roosevelt, Sextus Iulius Frontinus, John D. Rockefeller
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who raise handicapped sons and maintain love for the boys.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Penelopes: Lovers who are usually abandoned or abused by men, but who don't quit trying to still love. The princess that would hold out for the arrival of her prince even to the last breath.
Your favorite painter?: Norman Rockwell
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: Creativity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humor
Your favorite virtue?: Mercy
Your favorite occupation?: Bird-Watching from a boat
Who would you have liked to be?: A Pueblo Indian Chief in Pre-Columbian times
What is your favorite color?: Blue and all the hues of the ocean
What is your favorite flower?: Water Lilly
What is your favorite bird?: Noah's Dove
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Cormac McCarthy,
Who are your favorite poets?: Homer, T.S. Elliot, Gary Snyder
Who are your heroes in real life?: Folks who try to be good parents
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Graceful travelers: Sacagawea, Amelia Earhart
What are your favorite names?: Margaret/Thomas
What historical figures do you most despise?: Cannibals
What event in military history do you most admire?: The post-WWII reintegration of German rocket scientists into peaceful society through space exploration
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Greater will power
How would you like to die?: Quickly and without warning in the outdoors.

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