Proust Questionnaire: Prismatic's answers

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On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:58:50 UTC Prismatic (74) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: pain
Where would you like to live?: In Italy, on Lake Como or in Barcelona
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Books, music, painting, sun, ocean, dogs
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: those of love
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Napoleon
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Rosa Luxembourg
Your favorite painter?: David, Zurburan
Your favorite musician?: Donizetti, Verdi, Brahms
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, style
The quality you most admire in a woman?: beauty, elegance
Your favorite virtue?: innocence
Your favorite occupation?: reading, music, travel
Who would you have liked to be?: someone completely unknkown
Your most marked characteristic?: curiosity
What do you most value in your friends?: innocence
What is your principle defect?: impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: pain, early death
What is your favorite color?: green
What is your favorite flower?: white orchid
What is your favorite bird?: swallow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: proust and dickens
Who are your favorite poets?: Swinburne
Who are your heroes in real life?: Chruchill
What are your favorite names?: Edward, Thomas
What is it you most dislike?: selfishness
What historical figures do you most despise?: the popes
What event in military history do you most admire?: battle of Waterloo
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a good singing voice
How would you like to die?: in paris
What is your present state of mind?: calm
What is your motto?: Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re

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