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On Sun, 25 Jul 10 04:40:47 UTC Pat (39) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Poverty
Where would you like to live?: Amsterdam
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A road trip through a strange country with the right woman.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: gluttony and sloth
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Atticus Finch, Jesus, Spider-man, and Gus from Lonesome Dove.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Paine, Ulysses S. Grant, Harry S. Truman, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Dorothy Parker, Clara Barton, Jesse Jane and Abagail Adams
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scout from To Kill a MockingBird, Clara from Lonesome Dove and Buffy Summers
Your favorite painter?: Vincent Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Bruce Springsteen
The quality you most admire in a man?: Aetheism
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Pride
Your favorite virtue?: Determination
Your favorite occupation?: Reading
Who would you have liked to be?: A travel writer
Your most marked characteristic?: A sense of the absurd
What do you most value in your friends?: Calling me out on my bullshit
What is your principle defect?: I live in my head too much and don't live in the moment enough
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Sarah Palin becoming President
What would you like to be?: Glen Beck's assasain
What is your favorite color?: Burgundy
What is your favorite flower?: Rose
What is your favorite bird?: The emu
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kurt Vonnegutt and Larry McMurtry
Who are your favorite poets?: Robert Frost and Bob Dylan
Who are your heroes in real life?: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Richard Winters and Thomas Paine
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy Parker
What are your favorite names?: Thomas and Matthew
What is it you most dislike?: Blind Faith
What historical figures do you most despise?: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Osama Bin Laden
What event in military history do you most admire?: The surrender at Appomatox
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I wish I could sing
How would you like to die?: Surrounded by the panting, sweaty, nubile bodies of my sexually satiated harem girls.
What is your present state of mind?: Annoyed but indulgent in my sense of the absurd
What is your motto?: Mottos suck

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