Proust Questionnaire: Sonya Dahl's answers

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On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:51:56 UTC Sonya Dahl (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 betrayed
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere so remote that vexations will not follow my soul there
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Coming to the end of a Nabokov book after a long, sedulous, worshipful walk in its forested mountains
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To hedonism, sloth, laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Joe, Timofey, Mr. Darcy, Lennie Small
Who are your favorite characters in history?: King Hasaw Chan Kawil and Sophie Scholl
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who can imagine, those who can wonder, those with soft hearts
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Mira, Josephine
Your favorite painter?: Cezanne, Kuinji
Your favorite musician?: Bach, Rachmaninoff
The quality you most admire in a man?: Competence, wisdom, tenderness, strength
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Subtlety, humility, tenderness, grace
Your favorite virtue?: Love, compassion, freedom
Your favorite occupation?: Reading perfect poems
Who would you have liked to be?: The obvious one
Your most marked characteristic?: Chaos and a sense of irredeemable loss
What do you most value in your friends?: Humor, forgiveness, personal quirkiness or the imagination to embrace it in others
What is your principle defect?: Living
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Terror of any kind--or causing pain to those I love
What would you like to be?: Those things that are good to those I love and by their souls
What is your favorite color?: Purple
What is your favorite flower?: Tulips
What is your favorite bird?: Wild geese
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Nabokov
Who are your favorite poets?: Valery, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, Yeats, Hopkins, Cummings, Milton, Fet, Tyutchev, Nabokov, Pushkin, Esenin, Pasternak, too many to name
Who are your heroes in real life?: &, my good teachers
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sophie Scholl, Anne Frank. So few the heroines, really...
What are your favorite names?: Isaac, Jakob, Josephine, Peter
What is it you most dislike?: Cruelty, laziness, terror, betrayal, my demons; lack of rigor, wonder, imagination, humor and beauty
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin, and the cowards who obeyed them. Less so: the bad writers and the hacks.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Soviets in World War II
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Ability to create math, physics, or literature; self-control; courage
How would you like to die?: Having written my poems, shed my pain, and stirred the senses and moved the hearts of those I love.
What is your present state of mind?: Trepidation. So much else I should be doing.
What is your motto?: I wish I knew.

Que vive Marcel!

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