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On Fri, 16 Sep 11 22:42:43 UTC Siena (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be useless
Where would you like to live?
Outside of society at least half the time and within it the rest of the time
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Good food, good books, good environment, good conversation and to make and look at beautiful things.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Romance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Highly intelligent social outsiders with dry wit
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Plato, Socrates, Nietszche
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
L, Margaret Atwood, maybe my mom (I wish I knew more about her)
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Dagny Taggart
Your favorite painter?
Alex Gross
Your favorite musician?
Neko Case
The quality you most admire in a man?
Independence
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Independence
Your favorite virtue?
Self-production
Your favorite occupation?
Looking for beautiful things
Who would you have liked to be?
Me, but more sociable.
Your most marked characteristic?
Loneliness
What do you most value in your friends?
A mixture of seriousness and humour
What is your principle defect?
Lack of courage to take initiative
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To know all my flaws and be unable to better myself
What would you like to be?
Omnicient
What is your favorite color?
They all have their own intrinsic beauty
What is your favorite flower?
All of them
What is your favorite bird?
One that is free
Who are your favorite prose writers?
The ones who are clever, funny, absurd and above all truthful
Who are your favorite poets?
Stuart Murdoch?
Who are your heroes in real life?
None (that are men)
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Virginia Woolf, James Barry?
What are your favorite names?
Mine
What is it you most dislike?
Laziness, unwillingness or inability to act when one knows what to do
What historical figures do you most despise?
Religious authorities
What event in military history do you most admire?
Truces, especially the German-British WWI truces (Christmas, etc.).
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ability to connect with people on personal and intellectual levels
How would you like to die?
Any way so long as I am finished with life.
What is your present state of mind?
Insubstantial as a person, A little bit more knowledgeable of myself. Frustrated at being unable to figure out what will interest other people. Afraid I am unoriginal.
What is your motto?
I don't know.

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