Proust Questionnaire: Sarah's answers

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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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