Proust Questionnaire: Shane's answers

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On Sun, 30 Jan 11 14:20:38 UTC Shane (19) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lack love
Where would you like to live?: Arcadia
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be with those I love, with an ample supply of cigarettes, an unremitting flow of music, constant laughter and to have a place nearby to dance
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: The ones I understand myself
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The tragically romantic
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Those of virtue and greatness
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who are not contrained by the demands to tell all to everyone, to gossip. Those who can do their own thing. And my mother for her plethora of music.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The strong and the brave, the romantic
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Peter Doherty
The quality you most admire in a man?: Womanly sensibilities
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, honesty
Your favorite virtue?: The virtues of my friends
Your favorite occupation?: Smoking, singing, laughing
Who would you have liked to be?: Someone to be admired
Your most marked characteristic?: The need to feel, the unwavering desire to be loved and in love
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty combined with flattery (however false it may be) when I need it
What is your principle defect?: Indecisiveness, I think
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: For my father to have died in a road accident when I was younger. It was a recurring premonition throughout my younger years
What would you like to be?: A better guitarist
What is your favorite color?: Blood red to black to deep blue
What is your favorite flower?: Any flower treated with care and affection
What is your favorite bird?: The bluebird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Bukowski, Flaubert
Who are your favorite poets?: Rimbaud, Keats
Who are your heroes in real life?: Anyone who achieves anything they were told they couldn't
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Any of the strong females
What are your favorite names?: Emily, Dara, Katie, Ailish
What is it you most dislike?: A lack of thoughtfulness and consideration
What historical figures do you most despise?: The regulars
What event in military history do you most admire?: None
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm and decisiveness, persistence
How would you like to die?: Having achieved something to be proud of
What is your present state of mind?: Fatigue at having to investigate myself so deeply
What is your motto?: My motto is "Never have a motto"

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