Proust Questionnaire: Reed Braden's answers

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On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:37:54 UTC Reed Braden (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Omniscience: To have no mystery in one's life; To not have anything new to discover
Where would you like to live?: Anywhere with the man I could most easily learn to love
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Love, freedom, intellectual challenge
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Excess of good feelings at terrible cost
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The sceptics: The Apostle Thomas, Sherlock Holmes, Ellie Arroway and, of course, Velma
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Voltaire, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Hobbes, Charles Darwin
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The genius woman who has charm and wit and speaks her mind: Rachel Maddow, Madalyn Murray-O'Hair, Rebecca Watson, Eugenie Scott
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Emma Woodhouse, Elizabeth Bennet, modern interpretations of Mary Magdalene
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dalí, Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Sergei Prokofiev
The quality you most admire in a man?: Sensitivity
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, bravery
Your favorite virtue?: Reason
Your favorite occupation?: Writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Myself, I cannot think of anyone I'd rather be.
Your most marked characteristic?: Acerbic wit
What do you most value in your friends?: Understanding, intelligence
What is your principle defect?: Inability to remain content
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have been abandoned by family for my honesty
What would you like to be?: Myself
What is your favorite color?: The colour of a blushing cheek on an innocent lover
What is your favorite flower?: California Poppies
What is your favorite bird?: The female cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickenson, Edgar Allen Poe
Who are your heroes in real life?: I have no heroes, but I admire a great many people
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: George Elliot, Jane Austen
What are your favorite names?: Any name of Slavic origin
What is it you most dislike?: Those who would impede another's rights; Those who block the progress of reason through their ignorance
What historical figures do you most despise?: Moses, Muhammad, Paul
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Physical beauty
How would you like to die?: In the arms of a man I love
What is your present state of mind?: Content, for the time being
What is your motto?: I will not waste my life pretending that I will have another.

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