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On Mon, 11 Jul 11 19:47:02 UTC Sarah (33) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
to lose my taste for the things of god
Where would you like to live?
in a country where even kittens are literate
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
a table set with ale, surrounded by a diversity of friends
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
those I carry myself
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Jean-Baptise Adamsberg, Gilgamesh, Majnun, Florentino Ariza, Ferdinand the Bull, Nathan Explosion
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Hannibal, General Patton, Lucretia
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
any woman who seizes power for good or evil
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Sarah Connor, Hester Prynne, that evil nun from the Song of Bernadette
Your favorite painter?
Andrew Wyeth
Your favorite musician?
Haydn
The quality you most admire in a man?
unabashed eloquence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
unabashed sensibility
Your favorite virtue?
a lively palate
Your favorite occupation?
reading, walking, suspension in the pews
Who would you have liked to be?
Henry Adams, for the chance to have been thusly educated
Your most marked characteristic?
like a junkie who loves the one seated next to him above all others, I love the book in my hand
What do you most value in your friends?
a genteel tolerance of my defects -- thanks everyone for being there for me, the check's in the mail
What is your principle defect?
I can be so disparaging
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
acedia
What would you like to be?
I should be what I am
What is your favorite color?
prints, stripes, solids
What is your favorite flower?
the flower of mystical consolation
What is your favorite bird?
pie pelicanus
Who are your favorite prose writers?
cesar aira, umberto eco, fred vargas
Who are your favorite poets?
John Milton, Forugh Farrokhzad, Gerard Manley Hopkins
Who are your heroes in real life?
Dr. Elona K. Lucas
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Molly Pitcher
What are your favorite names?
Giovanni Battista
What is it you most dislike?
prejudice
What historical figures do you most despise?
the soldiers who blew the nose off the sphinx
What event in military history do you most admire?
the persuasion of Lysistrata
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
hypnotic exactitude
How would you like to die?
violently and with a loud roar
What is your present state of mind?
desultory
What is your motto?
make room

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