Proust Questionnaire: Rachel's answers

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On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:33 UTC Rachel (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose the respect of the people I respect and love
Where would you like to live?: Canada, or maybe New Zealand
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be well-respected in the field I'm most passionate about; to have love, friends, books, and cats
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Those that I recognize that I share myself
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Self-destructive tragic heroes like Hamlet or Julien Sorel
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Napoleon, Nietzsche, Alexander Hamilton
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who remain strong and shepherd a family through hardship, whether in Sudan, India, or inner-city Chicago
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre
Your favorite painter?: Gustave Moreau
Your favorite musician?: Tchaikovsky
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence without arrogance
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and being unafraid to show it around men
Your favorite virtue?: The courage of one's convictions
Your favorite occupation?: Reading; having intellectual insights and epiphanies
Who would you have liked to be?: A well-cared-for house cat
Your most marked characteristic?: Perfectionism, constantly demanding more of myself
What do you most value in your friends?: A certain spontaneity and strength of will that I lack
What is your principle defect?: Weakness of will; social reserve, trouble showing affection
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my parents
What would you like to be?: Happy and productive at my chosen pursuit, be it writing, teaching, composing...
What is your favorite color?: Blue-green, silver-gray, and other marine colors
What is your favorite flower?: the azalea
What is your favorite bird?: the hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Neil Gaiman
Who are your favorite poets?: Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams
Who are your heroes in real life?: Professors Joshua Landy and Lanier Anderson
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor of Acquitaine, Queen Elizabeth I, Abigail Adams
What are your favorite names?: Lilith and Alexander
What is it you most dislike?: Republicans (the American political party, not the system of government)
What historical figures do you most despise?: Oh, the obvious: Hitler, Goebbels, Stalin, Idi Amin...currently also the anti-Dreyfus conspirators
What event in military history do you most admire?: Probably the D-Day invasion
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Effortless success at everything I try
How would you like to die?: With a lucid mind (unaffected by Alzheimer's or other dementia) and not in pain
What is your present state of mind?: Mild stress about the things I should have gotten done by now
What is your motto?: I'm not sure I have one

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