Proust Questionnaire: Peter Heron's answers

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On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:03:45 UTC Peter Heron (57) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be unable to grow and change
Where would you like to live?: In Luang Prabang Laos PDR, in the novice monks' quarters
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be travelling, by elephant, airplane, river raft, tuk-tuk--by all means available
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Sloth
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: George Smiley, Marcel
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Buddha, Shakespeare, those who saved Jews (or Cambodians, or Lao people, etc) from extermination
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, women who don't need men to raise children
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Anne Frank
Your favorite painter?: Monet
Your favorite musician?: Sondheim
The quality you most admire in a man?: Decency
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Compassion
Your favorite occupation?: Reading
Who would you have liked to be?: One of Buddha's attendants
Your most marked characteristic?: Curiousity
What do you most value in your friends?: Permanence
What is your principle defect?: Sloth
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To die ignorant
What would you like to be?: Enlightened
What is your favorite color?: Light blue
What is your favorite flower?: Freesia
What is your favorite bird?: The family of herons
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Le Carre, Cheever, Proust, Borges
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickenson
Who are your heroes in real life?: Nelson Mandela, the folks in Medicines sans Frontiers
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: The invisible women who sustain, with courage and ingenuity, the lives of their children, and the children of others
What are your favorite names?: Aldo, Osmo
What is it you most dislike?: Racism
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hilter, George W Bush, John Howard, Margaret Thatcher, Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot
What event in military history do you most admire?: The victory of the Vietnamese over the American military
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Magic
How would you like to die?: At peace, without pain, in a happy state of mind
What is your present state of mind?: Yearning
What is your motto?: It's never too late

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