Proust Questionnaire: Peregrine's answers

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:18:33 UTC Peregrine answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be unaware of what you need or want in life
Where would you like to live?: Anywhere that encourages rather than supresses the love of life, ideally deep within nature
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have few necessities and possess them, thus being free to devote time to others
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To the belief that love will come to one who simply waits for it
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The romanticized heroes of time that never existed, who leave the world poorer because they did not
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Saladin for chivalry, Raoul Wallenberg for courage, and Abraham Linclon for character
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Penelope of Ithaca, and any who honor the love given to them
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who inspire the hero to become the best he can be
Your favorite painter?: Waterhouse
Your favorite musician?: Yanni
The quality you most admire in a man?: Heroic and courageous character
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, angelic tranquility, and organic beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Bravery, the strong defending the weak
Your favorite occupation?: Teaching
Who would you have liked to be?: Wiser
Your most marked characteristic?: An old soul
What do you most value in your friends?: Unconditional loyalty, or rather a response as such when it is offered to them
What is your principle defect?: Arrogance
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To spend the limited years of life pursuing something of false value, and then realizing the mistake when it becomes too late
What would you like to be?: Better and wiser in the future, whichever form that may take
What is your favorite color?: Silver
What is your favorite flower?: Wild rose
What is your favorite bird?: Peregrine Falcon
Who are your favorite prose writers?: To have a favorite one must be aware of more than a single example
Who are your favorite poets?: Dante Alighieri
Who are your heroes in real life?: Saladin
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: A question that has an answer I have yet to discover
What are your favorite names?: My own so long as it's called to me by someone who means me well
What is it you most dislike?: Being subject to someone else's inadequecies
What historical figures do you most despise?: Heydrich
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Christmas Truce of World War 1
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A stronger appreciation for physical exercise
How would you like to die?: Without regret
What is your present state of mind?: Introspective
What is your motto?: Don't be afriad

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