Proust Questionnaire: R. W.'s answers

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On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:20:30 UTC R. W. (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: A loved one dying
Where would you like to live?: In the city with all the noise, hubbub and people...maybe
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Just being with those that I love and cherish.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: A life filled with things at my fingertips
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The anti-hero or the protagionist who is overcoming the impossible.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I actually have none
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My mother, my sisters, basically the women in my family
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The hard-nosed adventurer, the femme fatale, the mother heroic
Your favorite painter?: Durer
Your favorite musician?: Tori Amos
The quality you most admire in a man?: Compassion, passion, intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, compassion, passion
Your favorite virtue?: Patience
Your favorite occupation?: day-dreaming
Who would you have liked to be?: No one but who I am now
Your most marked characteristic?: My desire to love, be loved and love in turn
What do you most value in your friends?: Generosity
What is your principle defect?: Stubbornness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: It would be never knowing true love.
What would you like to be?: Me...I would want to be nothing else.
What is your favorite color?: Black
What is your favorite flower?: Gardenia
What is your favorite bird?: Hummingbird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Neil Gaiman, Edgar Allan Poe
Who are your favorite poets?: Edgar Allan Poe, e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?: My mother, my beloved, my sisters, those who overcome adversity
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Nefertiti- the Nubian Queen
What are your favorite names?: Evelyn, Gladys, Meredith, Leona, Isabel, Leon, Carlos, Lucien, Lucius, Marcus, Gaius
What is it you most dislike?: People who hurt others just because they can
What historical figures do you most despise?: Probably any of them if I knew more.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I can't think of one
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Fathomless drive
How would you like to die?: The woman I wanted to be but much better and loved by those I love.
What is your present state of mind?: I'm amused right now. Very amused.
What is your motto?: Tu fui ego eris

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