Proust Questionnaire: RiverSong's answers

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On Tue, 18 Oct 11 01:35:56 UTC RiverSong (32) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To know that the person you love more than anything does not care about/for you.
Where would you like to live?: A community where I can belong, like Stars Hollow.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be with the person I love most, and to know my friends and family are safe and secure.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Lateness, because I am almost always late.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The antagonists of noir and postmodernism- the have faults and are not perfect.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: John C Calhoun, Stonewall Jackson, JEB Stewart, Thomas Jefferson
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Agatha Christie, Ellanor Roosevelt, Katherine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Chia (Idoru), Juanita (Snow Crash), America (Cryptonomicon), Diana (A discovery of witches), Rowan (The witching hour), River Song (Doctor Who)
Your favorite painter?: Kandinsky
Your favorite musician?: Steely Dan
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty, a sense of humor, intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, grace, courage,
Your favorite virtue?: Truthfulness
Your favorite occupation?: Reading and baking
Who would you have liked to be?: River Song. Or a literary editor, architectural engineer, or lawyer.
Your most marked characteristic?: My intelligence/ originality
What do you most value in your friends?: Originality
What is your principle defect?: My competiveness or my issue of self-involvement.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not have been a part of my family
What would you like to be?: A literary editor, architectural engineer, or a lawyer.
What is your favorite color?: Blues
What is your favorite flower?: Gerber daisy
What is your favorite bird?: The owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Don DeLillo, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Paul Auster, Antoine Saint-Exubery
Who are your favorite poets?: William Bronk, Anne Sexton
Who are your heroes in real life?: My granfathers
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Joanne of Arc
What are your favorite names?: Nicole, Lenore, Rowan,
What is it you most dislike?: Game-players, liars
What historical figures do you most despise?: Bullies and tyrants
What event in military history do you most admire?: I find the Civil War interesting.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm or musical talent
How would you like to die?: A better person than I am now, and much beloved.
What is your present state of mind?: Well, now I am introspective, I guess.
What is your motto?: Everyone has the right to be a damn fool.

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