Proust Questionnaire: Rodrigo's answers

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On Mon, 31 Oct 11 04:01:14 UTC Rodrigo (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: The death of a friend
Where would you like to live?: In a house, built by myself, on a crag overlooking the ocean near this one beach in Santa Catarina, Brazil, where I always spend New Year. The house would be mostly stone, burnt concrete, and demolition wood.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have the freedom to pursue whatever hobbies, subjects I desire; to travel and live anywhere; and have all my friends near me.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: quickness with which I give in to immediate material desires
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Ignatius J. Reilly
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Napoleon, Socrates, Gauss, Magellan
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The oppressed women living in the Middle East
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia
Your favorite painter?: Velazquez, Degas, Rothko, Pollock
Your favorite musician?: J.S. Bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: Moral, physical courage - conviction.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Moral, physical courage - conviction.
Your favorite virtue?: Arete
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, cooking, while unburdened by responsibility
Who would you have liked to be?: I hope that one day I will be able to say with complete honesty and confidence: Me.
Your most marked characteristic?: Sprezzatura
What do you most value in your friends?: Their continued presence
What is your principle defect?: I am quick to boredom. Cynicism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Loss of my family, followed by the loss of my own mental faculties
What would you like to be?: The best version of myself possible.
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Garlic
What is your favorite bird?: The crow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Right now, P.G. Wodehouse
Who are your favorite poets?: Whitman, Yeats, Dylan Thomas
Who are your heroes in real life?: My grandfather.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra
What are your favorite names?: Jaqueline, Alexandra
What is it you most dislike?: The part of my mind that constantly battles against me.
What historical figures do you most despise?: I cannot say.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Thermopylae
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Gifted facility for mathematics
How would you like to die?: Saving a life.
What is your present state of mind?: Irritation that these are not turning out to be as brilliantly revealing, and witty as I had hoped.
What is your motto?: Alis Grave Nil

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