Proust Questionnaire: Scooter's answers

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On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:53:58 UTC Scooter (29) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have to admit to failures
Where would you like to live?: A place where I can be in solitude or be with my friends at my choice
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A great bottle of wine, and nothing to do the next day.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who strive for something that cannot be accomplished.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: The ones who seem like they could have been my favorite characters in fiction.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The ones who love me.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The beautiful and sexy ones who come to life and want me.
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Eric Clapton
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The ability to reason
Your favorite virtue?: Wisdom, since a wise person would act virtuous whenever he could
Your favorite occupation?: The endeavors that absorb my mind
Who would you have liked to be?: Franklin Roosevelt
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving to be admired, and a need to hide the moments when I am least admirable
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Weakness of a will to do that which bores or embarasses me
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To live as a failure
What would you like to be?: Myself as I should have been with greater seriousness
What is your favorite color?: Whatever flatters a beautiful woman
What is your favorite flower?: The ones I walk past in the woods
What is your favorite bird?: The hawk that lives in my back yard
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nabokov, Ishiguro, Grahams both Swift & Greene, Richard Russo
Who are your favorite poets?: Yeats, Auden, Kavanagh
Who are your heroes in real life?: My cross-country coaches
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor Roosevelt
What are your favorite names?: My own
What is it you most dislike?: Stupidity, since it leads to unthinking reaction in politics and conversation
What historical figures do you most despise?: All the racist, homophobic, misogynist, selfish, unempathetic people throughout history, starting with Ayn Rand
What event in military history do you most admire?: The American helicopter pilot who rescued children from My Lai and ordered his gunners to shoot any American who tried to stop him.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Confidence
How would you like to die?: After having accomplished all I wish to do, and having had time to appreciate my accomplishments
What is your present state of mind?: Boredom, anxiety and guilt at not doing work right now
What is your motto?: Om

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