Proust Questionnaire: TerryG's answers

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:20:48 UTC TerryG (49) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: extreme pain and no medication
Where would you like to live?: beside the ocean, near the invisible city...
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to share my life with those I love, admire and respect. Surrouded by good books music and food.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: people like Gandaulf and Sam (LOTR) selfless Heroes who give all for the overall good.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Homer, Socrates, Michael de Montainge...Great explorers
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: caring women..intelligent nurses and women of that ilk.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: great mothers like carrot top's mumin Harry Potter or Ma Larkin.
Your favorite painter?: Turner/Dali
Your favorite musician?: Freddy Mercury
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligent caring character
The quality you most admire in a woman?: integillent and caring
Your favorite virtue?: justice, compassion, humour and love?
Your favorite occupation?: teaching and learning
Who would you have liked to be?: a critically acclaimed, academically admired prize winning writer of fiction and non-fiction
Your most marked characteristic?: Unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
What do you most value in your friends?: that we understand each other and agree on the big points, the ones that matter
What is your principle defect?: need to understand more about all things and little will power
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not to have met Janet for, reasons on everything, at every level
What would you like to be?: an author
What is your favorite color?: a certain shade of blue seen in the sky on summer's days and the green of N Ireland after the rain in summer.
What is your favorite flower?: a Lady's
What is your favorite bird?: probably a hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Will Self and Robert McLaim Wilson
Who are your favorite poets?: have not read enough yet to make an informed opinion, so... My uncle Billy Graham
Who are your heroes in real life?: My partner Janet and my mum
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Pandora?
What are your favorite names?: Clytamenestra (all woman)
What is it you most dislike?: bullying by nations and individuals
What historical figures do you most despise?: those involved in religious crimes eg the Inquisition
What event in military history do you most admire?: Alexander's empire
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to persuade people who make big decisions ad put the earth and its people on the right path.
How would you like to die?: quickly, violently and painlessly
What is your present state of mind?: very relaxed
What is your motto?: happiness is...a continual progress, from one object of desire to the next.

TerryG
49 Male
Belfast
Northern Ireland

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