Proust Questionnaire: Nels's answers

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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:11:05 UTC Nels (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be reminded by unrequited love of my spiritual aloneness in the world.
Where would you like to live?: Where I am King to a Queen of my choosing.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have my presence coveted by those people whom I cherish, and to feel no remorse for their desire: to have it be justified by improvement of myself and active caring and participation in their lives.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The waves of the sea of my emotions buffet me and often throw me on rocks, but I feel little regret. I should control my emotions, but I do not. Instead, I let them run wild within me.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Fiction fails to interest me, so none, except for the simple heroes, with little avarice, ambition, or conceipt. Maybe Winston Smith. Or Jesus Christ, if and only if he was indeed fictional.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Abraham Lincoln, Johannes Gutenberg, Nikola Tesla, Aristotle, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Billy Graham
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My sister.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Again, fiction rarely captures my fancy. It is art that inspires me, and the women in paint on canvas are those who have inspired creation. Either muses, or mothers then.
Your favorite painter?: Johannes Vermeer or Pablo Picasso.
Your favorite musician?: Johann Sebastian Bach. But also Matt Ward, Thom Yorke, Thurston Moore, Beth Gibbons, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Lenoard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Louis Armstrong, Elle Fitzgerald, Neil Young and Robert Plant.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Consistency. Wisdom. Empathy.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Genuineness, generosity, intelligence.
Your favorite virtue?: The virtue of selflessness.
Your favorite occupation?: Listening to music, making music, embracing a lover.
Who would you have liked to be?: Whoever it is who will one day capture the heart of the woman who has captured mine.
Your most marked characteristic?: Passion, and poor control of that passion.
What do you most value in your friends?: Their spiritual charity.
What is your principle defect?: Ignorance of self, and an unquiet id.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To give my love without it ever being returned.
What would you like to be?: Loved by my beloved, but only when I deserve it. May I someday always.
What is your favorite color?: The one of the sky painted by the setting sun.
What is your favorite flower?: The ones that have sex most often.
What is your favorite bird?: The sparrow.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: C. S. Lewis, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Sallinger, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Orwell and Frank Herbert.
Who are your favorite poets?: Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, William Blake.
Who are your heroes in real life?: My sister.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Perhaps Sappho. Maybe Annie Oakley. Defintely Mother Theresa.
What are your favorite names?: The apt ones.
What is it you most dislike?: The tyrany of others. Injustice. Spite.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Joseph Stalin, Ollie North, Richard M. Nixon, Osama bin Ladin, the list is endless.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Every moment of silence.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Self control, and the sense of humor to make any woman laugh and laugh.
How would you like to die?: Quickly.
What is your present state of mind?: Anticipatory.
What is your motto?: There are never enough questions.

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