Proust Questionnaire: Plusein's answers

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On Thu, 24 Jun 10 05:17:49 UTC Plusein (25) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Slavery.
Where would you like to live?: In a clearing on a forested mountainside.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Having a worthwhile career that I love, and to live in a beautiful and natural environment. Also to be able to sleep in as long as I want every day!
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Shame and self-criticism.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Chihiro
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Isabella Bird
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: People like my parents: nice people living lives of beauty in service of humankind.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Same as above
Your favorite painter?: Not painter - Hiroshige
Your favorite musician?: Fever Ray, Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: honesty, empathy, ability to see the big picture
The quality you most admire in a woman?: same answer
Your favorite virtue?: compassion
Your favorite occupation?: thinking
Who would you have liked to be?: Issey Miyake
Your most marked characteristic?: Outspoken
What do you most value in your friends?: Real understanding and care, fun
What is your principle defect?: self-consciousness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Slavery
What would you like to be?: A person who does good for humanity
What is your favorite color?: The colors of nature
What is your favorite flower?: The flowers of my childhood home
What is your favorite bird?: The bird I'm looking at at the moment
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Banana Yoshimoto
Who are your favorite poets?: n/a
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those who protect others and fight for human rights
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Pimiko
What are your favorite names?: Hideki, Soo-hee, Misha
What is it you most dislike?: Cruelty
What historical figures do you most despise?: All popes, Mao, Stalin, et al
What event in military history do you most admire?: none
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: True confidence
How would you like to die?: Alone, in my sleep, on a moonlit night in a cabin on a wooded hillside, at an advanced age.
What is your present state of mind?: Worried about my future
What is your motto?: Life is too short to do things one doesn't want to do.

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