Proust Questionnaire: Pope's answers

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On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:38:26 UTC Pope (31) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: malaise of lonliness
Where would you like to live?: Tokyo
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to wake up next to someone who makes me want to wake up and yet not leave the bed, then to feel accomplished, feel music drown me, to be lost in a story, to be exhilerated and aware of how nervous I am at that moment of fear.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Lust and arrogance.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Characters whose lives have gathered the gravity of a black hole; they exude their depth intheir simplicity and do not have metaphorical fuzz because the importance of this simplicity crushes the trivial under its own weight. Collin Laney, Casse, Kohnstamm
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Rebels. Those who stood on their own principle and had to fight. Socrates, Musashi, Sir Richard Burton, Omar Khayim, George vWashington and Thomas Paine.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who do not lead my mind but subdue my ego with wit and charm and violence and demands of honesty.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those with a plan.
Your favorite painter?: Kurt WIlliams
Your favorite musician?: Billy Corgan. Yes, still.
The quality you most admire in a man?: consideration of multiple perspectives
The quality you most admire in a woman?: self-determination
Your favorite virtue?: Honor
Your favorite occupation?: enthralling myself in conversation
Who would you have liked to be?: Aroon Krishnan. Or Sir Richard Burton.
Your most marked characteristic?: incesant movement and noise
What do you most value in your friends?: their attention, I chose them for their excellent qualities, and if I can hold thir attention I feel accomplished. This is my most egotistical thought.
What is your principle defect?: Know-it-all-ness and laziness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not unerstanding myself
What would you like to be?: a writer and a rich man
What is your favorite color?: black
What is your favorite flower?: orchid
What is your favorite bird?: toucan
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Thomas Kohnstamm
Who are your favorite poets?: T.S. Elliot, Henley
Who are your heroes in real life?: Roy Kurban, Gary Lee,
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Emily Dickenson
What are your favorite names?: Duncan
What is it you most dislike?: inconsitency
What historical figures do you most despise?: Abraham
What event in military history do you most admire?: Russian repulsion of Napolean and of Hitler.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: as Proust says
How would you like to die?: of very old age or standing for somethign I believe
What is your present state of mind?: panic and disgust
What is your motto?: I don't know.

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