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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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