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On Thu, 15 Jul 10 12:15:01 UTC Sebastian (18) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Not being able to express my nature and needs.
Where would you like to live?
New York City
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Books, tea, clever friends, the theatre, lots of music, an Internet connection, and a lover.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Smoking and pointless websites.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Philip Carey, Batman, and Prince Hal.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Frank O'Hara, Oscar Wilde, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emma Goldman, Lorca.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Emma Goldman, Lady Gaga.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Holly Golightly.
Your favorite painter?
Joe Brainard.
Your favorite musician?
John Darnielle.
The quality you most admire in a man?
Brilliance.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Brilliance.
Your favorite virtue?
Kindness.
Your favorite occupation?
Reading and smoking while drinking a cup of tea.
Who would you have liked to be?
A Socialist agitator during the Prague Spring.
Your most marked characteristic?
Wit.
What do you most value in your friends?
Willingness to consider new ideas.
What is your principle defect?
Bitterness.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Enforced silence.
What would you like to be?
Something that can fly.
What is your favorite color?
Green.
What is your favorite flower?
Carnations.
What is your favorite bird?
Red-tailed hawk.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
EM Forster, Herman Melville, Nabokov, Maugham.
Who are your favorite poets?
Frank O'Hara, Lorca, Elizabeth Bishop, James Schuyler, AE Housman.
Who are your heroes in real life?
Harvey Milk, Louis Sullivan, Nina Simone.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Rosalind Franklin, Susan B. Anthony, Emma Goldman.
What are your favorite names?
Sebastian, George, Owen, Milo.
What is it you most dislike?
Pigheadedness.
What historical figures do you most despise?
Bismark, Hitler, Franco.
What event in military history do you most admire?
The Warsaw ghetto uprising.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A sculpted chest.
How would you like to die?
Peacefully with my friends and family around me.
What is your present state of mind?
Sleepy. My wisdom teeth hurt.
What is your motto?
Fuck fascism.

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