Proust Questionnaire: Nick Schiff's answers

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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:40:34 UTC Nick Schiff (16) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being in cold weather, separated from one's home.
Where would you like to live?: Los Angeles; a warm place where they have extreme and true openness of mind
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in the desert, reading all the books I've ever wanted to read on a cheap lounge chair in the sun.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Procrastination
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The Rebels
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Cuauhtemoc, Crazy Horse, Aaron Burr, Voltaire.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Very skinny, attractive girls who have a slightly altered mindset, and are very pleased with it; Ayan Hirsi Ali
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Subtle, thinking types. Those who remain graceful and beautiful and tenderly sexual but have a mind of their own.
Your favorite painter?: Manet or Velazquez
Your favorite musician?: Spencer Krug or Avey Tare
The quality you most admire in a man?: truly independent thinking
The quality you most admire in a woman?: spontaneity
Your favorite virtue?: knowledge of self
Your favorite occupation?: warrior
Who would you have liked to be?: A rich persian noble, or someone else in a warm, balmy clime, surrounded by good smells, attractive people, and intellectual joys of being
Your most marked characteristic?: Being from california
What do you most value in your friends?: Attractiveness, a good sense of style, intelligence
What is your principle defect?: Lack of honesty to self; a pretension of knowing who I am when often I don't
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Torture; being longing and wistful after something which you will never attain.
What would you like to be?: A man with more money than he knows what to do with, but with true friends, true principles; an enlightened man
What is your favorite color?: A very deep blue that one could find by diving in the Pacific
What is your favorite flower?: bougenvilla
What is your favorite bird?: a bird of prey
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nabakov
Who are your favorite poets?: Frost, Cummings
Who are your heroes in real life?: Christopher Hitchens, George Carlin
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: None that I can think of
What are your favorite names?: american indian names, japanese names, spanish-derived names
What is it you most dislike?: my own haste and trampling over my self as I move forward through time
What historical figures do you most despise?: Spanish conquistadors
What event in military history do you most admire?: The defeat of Custard, the red army's sacking of berlin
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: irresistible attractive powers, the ability to naturally and easily make lots of money (to ease my duress in this goddamned society)
How would you like to die?: In the grips of a tiger in a mangrove forest, hugging it, feeling its fur and its heart beat as it rips me apart
What is your present state of mind?: frustrated with having it be so transient and ephemeral and gone so quickly--my life is dominated by things which I do not want to do but am forced to by my own submission to society's expectations. people have far too little free time these days.
What is your motto?: I'd like to think it's "anyone who sees life as something besides entertainment is missing the point," but more realistically it's probably "think for yourself, try to be happy, but not hallow"

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