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On Fri, 16 Dec 11 08:07:26 UTC Paulshrug (44) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Unemployment.
Where would you like to live?
In a European city with rustic architecture.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Playing music or writing
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Gluttony and sensualism
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Yossarian, most Vonnegutian heroes
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Voltaire and Edward R. Murrow
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My wife
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Beatrix from Kill Bill
Your favorite painter?
Picasso
Your favorite musician?
Elvis Costello and Stevie Wonder
The quality you most admire in a man?
Intelligence, adaptability
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Intelligence, adaptability
Your favorite virtue?
Mercy
Your favorite occupation?
Listening to music and writing manifestos
Who would you have liked to be?
Bob Dylan
Your most marked characteristic?
Humor
What do you most value in your friends?
Intelligence and humor
What is your principle defect?
Self-defeatism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To be estranged from my family, or unemployed
What would you like to be?
Myself, thinner
What is your favorite color?
Deep blue, purple
What is your favorite flower?
All-purpose
What is your favorite bird?
The hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Lester Bangs
Who are your favorite poets?
T.S. Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?
My family
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Rosa Parks
What are your favorite names?
Marcel Proust
What is it you most dislike?
Willful ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler and, lately, Rick Perry
What event in military history do you most admire?
The seige on common sense
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Will power and yearning intellect
How would you like to die?
Quietly
What is your present state of mind?
Clunky
What is your motto?
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends!

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