Proust Questionnaire: Tess Calopedos's answers

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On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:19:26 UTC Tess Calopedos (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be in a room of people and feel alone
Where would you like to live?: Paddington, London, Paris
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To write... well
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: my pretentiousness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: tall, dark and handsome swooners and the nerdy, quiet ones
Who are your favorite characters in history?: cicero, augustus, antony and cleo
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: ones who overcome great adversity
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: the leading ladies with gumption
Your favorite painter?: Monet, Degas, Renoir and Klippel
Your favorite musician?: Title of Show / Queen
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, humour, personality
The quality you most admire in a woman?: spunk
Your favorite virtue?: hard to say
Your favorite occupation?: reading, dreaming and writing
Who would you have liked to be?: since this cannot happen, I will not answer. My brother perhaps
Your most marked characteristic?: deep thinker
What do you most value in your friends?: their shoulders and their sbsequant availability to lean on them
What is your principle defect?: not believing in myself
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: not to have gone to Ascham
What would you like to be?: Myself - as those whom I admire would like me to be
What is your favorite color?: Purple
What is your favorite flower?: jacarandas in paddington
What is your favorite bird?: the northern mockingbird - it's a sin to kill em AND it sings at 4pm in dalton extras in W1
Who are your favorite prose writers?: hard to say - Nabokov, Lee + others
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?: not saying for pure awkwardness
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: ORLANDAAAAA
What are your favorite names?: the name that my daughter will have
What is it you most dislike?: being late... for a very important date
What historical figures do you most despise?: Catiline and Ted Hughes
What event in military history do you most admire?: Battle of Hastings
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Will power
How would you like to die?: with my family
What is your present state of mind?: Confusion, Depression, Annoyance, Cabin fever
What is your motto?: History is herstory too

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