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On Tue, 04 May 10 22:48:24 UTC The Imprecise Duke Of Phonology (77) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have harmed one you love through inattrention or imatation.
Where would you like to live?: in my dreams, surrounded by the rugged countryside, yet near a sprawling metroplolis
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A young woman who is enamored of my maturity who also enjoys a foray to the theater of the absurd (next door)
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: sleep, not telling people when they need to fuck off, spiteful enjoyment of failure
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: There are no heros in fiction.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Paricelsus
Your favorite musician?: the chemical brothers, run dmc, and Lamont Young
The quality you most admire in a man?: bravery, humility, forwardness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: gentlnes, forwardness, confidence
Your favorite virtue?: what's a virtue?
Your favorite occupation?: teaching, learning, hanging out with friends and telling them something new
Who would you have liked to be?: I would have liked tro be a mix of ice cream, democracy and computer science and given myself to the 20th century.
Your most marked characteristic?: pretentiousnes combined with a hunger for truth
What do you most value in your friends?: that they seek me out and invite me on adventures
What is your principle defect?: not following my dreams
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have harmed the inocent
What would you like to be?: a god who makes mistakes
What is your favorite color?: the color which burns retina when you imagine it
What is your favorite flower?: that white none that smells real good.
What is your favorite bird?: I dunno, I like the ravens around c.c.s.f.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Sedaris,
Who are your favorite poets?: T.S. Eliot, Richard Brautigan
Who are your heroes in real life?: the Iranian from hell
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: harriet Tubmann
What are your favorite names?: Grace, Beatrice
What is it you most dislike?: gentle duress
What historical figures do you most despise?: Qin shi huang di, for burning the book of music
What event in military history do you most admire?: the protests of the vietnam war
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: ability to enlist friends in my own endeavors
How would you like to die?: remebered 2 centuries later, for a contribution to human understanding- like Mendel
What is your present state of mind?: sleepy
What is your motto?: fortune favors the bold

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