Proust Questionnaire: Tim Sandle's answers

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On Wed, 26 May 10 23:08:46 UTC Tim Sandle answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being separated from Jenny for long periods of time
Where would you like to live?: UK or Ireland, in a city
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Sitting in our library, listening to jazz, drinking beer or champagne on a Saturday evening
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: My impatience
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Winston Smith (1984)
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Karl Marx, Thomas Paine
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Jenny
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Tess
Your favorite painter?: Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: Billy Bragg
The quality you most admire in a man?: Courage and moral leadership
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Tenderness and compassion
Your favorite virtue?: Patience
Your favorite occupation?: Writer
Who would you have liked to be?: History teacher
Your most marked characteristic?: Ability to take something complex and reduce it down to its key elements
What do you most value in your friends?: Taking time to listen to me
What is your principle defect?: Impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have met Jenny
What would you like to be?: Content and at peace more often
What is your favorite color?: Blue
What is your favorite flower?: Rose
What is your favorite bird?: Robin
Who are your favorite prose writers?: George Orwell, Franz Kafka, Thomas Hardy
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas and John Hegley
Who are your heroes in real life?: Tony Benn, those who struggle for improved workers' rights
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Annie Bessant
What are your favorite names?: Jenny and Jake
What is it you most dislike?: Ignorance and single-mindedness
What historical figures do you most despise?: Margaret Thatcher, if she qualifies as 'historical'
What event in military history do you most admire?: Cuban Missile Crisis
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: infatigablity
How would you like to die?: Old, at home with my wife holding my hand
What is your present state of mind?: Content
What is your motto?: That which does not kill you makes you stronger

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