Proust Questionnaire: Peter Joseph Tamber Maxima Gaffney's answers

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On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:52:49 UTC Peter Joseph Tamber Maxima Gaffney answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose the love of my life
Where would you like to live?: In my own dreams
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To live in tranquility with my love
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The tragic want of material posessions
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are the most Human
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Isoroku Yamamoto and others of strong virtue and character
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who understand that they must define feminity for themselves, not let society define it for them
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who are the most Human, as with heroes
Your favorite painter?: I have no favourite
Your favorite musician?: They vary depending on my mood, my disposition and what is active in my mind
The quality you most admire in a man?: Common sense
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Common sense
Your favorite virtue?: Truth
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: I should like to be myself and nothing more or less
Your most marked characteristic?: A desire to find Truth
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty
What is your principle defect?: My inability to control all facets of myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To die without knowing myself
What would you like to be?: Myself
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Those which are the most subtle and unassuming
What is your favorite bird?: Blackbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: I have not the eye for poetry
Who are your favorite poets?: None
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who know themselves
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Rose Luxemburg, Elizabeth Tudor
What are your favorite names?: Those that are the most unique and yet seemingly mundane
What is it you most dislike?: Human idiocy
What historical figures do you most despise?: I cannot say, for there will always be one redeeming characteristic of them
What event in military history do you most admire?: Battle of Berlin
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The gift of Honesty
How would you like to die?: Peacefully, knowing who I am
What is your present state of mind?: Complacency
What is your motto?: A truly wise man knows he knows nothing, for a truly foolish man believes he knows everything

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