Proust Questionnaire: Sophie's answers

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On Sun, 18 Jul 10 04:36:26 UTC Sophie (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Suicide of a friend.
Where would you like to live?: Near enough to where I was born that I don't feel lonely and far enough away that its much much nicer.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: What I have now. Friends and creativity and freedom and prospects.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Being late all the time and worrying after silence.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Sal Paradis and Dean Moriarty
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Nijinsky, Joseph Plunkett, James Dean, John Lennon, Jeff Buckley
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: All the people I say I love after knowing them for days.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Lucille.
Your favorite painter?: Picasso
Your favorite musician?: Jeff Buckley
The quality you most admire in a man?: How he maked me feel.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Confidence and truth of self.
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness
Your favorite occupation?: being
Who would you have liked to be?: I'm glad I'm me.
Your most marked characteristic?: Seeing the e=beauty in everything and falling in love with everyone.
What do you most value in your friends?: Understanding
What is your principle defect?: Too withdrawn
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: My dad or brother taking his own life.
What would you like to be?: A writer and a mother.
What is your favorite color?: Yellow
What is your favorite flower?: Ones that are colourful in peripheral vision.
What is your favorite bird?: I don't know yet.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Jack Kerouac and James Joyce.
Who are your favorite poets?: Charles Bukowski and Dylan Thomas
Who are your heroes in real life?: Grace, Doireann, Neil Watkins, Jose and Brian. My dad.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Constance Marcievicz, Rosa Parks, Harper Lee
What are your favorite names?: Lewis, Julian, Sophie
What is it you most dislike?: The opposite of compassion
What historical figures do you most despise?: Black and Tans, Klu Klux Klan,
What event in military history do you most admire?: The 1916 rising
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I have it.
How would you like to die?: Mourned but accepted.
What is your present state of mind?: Probably should have gone to bed.
What is your motto?: Find flight and fly.

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