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On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:55:06 UTC Raven (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire:
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- The death of my children.
- Where would you like to live?
- In the British Isles.
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- My immediate family, Christmas Day. No one else.
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- Selfishness
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Jane Eyre
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Elizabeth I
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- My grandmothers who taught me what not to do.
- Your favorite painter?
- Holbein
- Your favorite musician?
- Ani Difranco and Regina Spektor, Bob Dylan
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Intelligence, sense of humor, patience.
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Strength, patience, intelligence.
- Your favorite virtue?
- The ones that do the most good, for the most people.
- Your favorite occupation?
- Reading, writing, drawing.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- Myself, with more patience and less temper.
- Your most marked characteristic?
- My refusal to be subordinate.
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Intelligence and honesty. Good hygiene is helpful as well.
- What is your principle defect?
- Selfishness and temper.
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- If my parents had sent me to college, and I hadn't done it on my own. I wouldn't have my children now.
- What would you like to be?
- Rational
- What is your favorite color?
- Blood red, sky blue.
- What is your favorite flower?
- Peony.
- What is your favorite bird?
- Chickadees
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Tracy Chevalier, Charlotte Bronte.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- Donne
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- Jamie
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Elizabeth I
- What are your favorite names?
- Mom
- What is it you most dislike?
- Selfishness in myself and others.
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, G.W. Bush
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Those which end wars.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- An ease with myself
- How would you like to die?
- Very old, survived by my children.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Calm
- What is your motto?
- I've never had one.
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