Proust Questionnaire: Tim Proser's answers

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On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:25:05 UTC Tim Proser (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: A feeling of inadequacy in love.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere rural, yet still stimulated.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: An urban peace. Must be accompanied.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Sloth, torpor; a lack of motivation.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Odysseus and Jason (Argonauts optional).
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Marco Polo, Francis Drake, and Ghandi.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Joan of Arc, if she could be secular, and Mata Hari.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: The woman who stretches tenderness and commitment to an almost astral plane.
Your favorite painter?: Alphonse Mucha.
Your favorite musician?: F. Chopin.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humility; amiability.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Sensitivity, Humor, Foulness.
Your favorite virtue?: Friendliness, universal acceptance.
Your favorite occupation?: Being in love
Who would you have liked to be?: If not myself, than no one.
Your most marked characteristic?: Tender Kindness and an insatiable desire for affection.
What do you most value in your friends?: unquestioning acceptance
What is your principle defect?: Lack of motivation.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: A condemnation to an isolated boredom.
What would you like to be?: Someone of incredible tolerance and inner peace. Maybe the Dhali Lama.
What is your favorite color?: I only enjoy colors in context, e.g. Green only when in someone's eyes.
What is your favorite flower?: Hyacinth.
What is your favorite bird?: The eagle, if only for spectacle.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hemingway and Nabokov.
Who are your favorite poets?: Charles Bukowski and William Blake.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Izrael, an El Salvadorian worker I once met, and those who have extensively traveled.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Rosa Parks
What are your favorite names?: Gabriel and Jennifer.
What is it you most dislike?: Emasculation, even in witnessing it.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Jim Crowe.
What event in military history do you most admire?: I look upon none with admiration, only with tempered amazement.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Talent at the piano
How would you like to die?: Getting shot in the middle of the street, preferably midday.
What is your present state of mind?: Detached wonderment.
What is your motto?: I do not have one, for fear that I might live by it.

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