Proust Questionnaire: Tony's answers

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On Sat, 17 Dec 11 14:35:51 UTC Tony (30) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Failure
Where would you like to live?: France, in Langedoc keeping bees by the sea
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Books, music and the people I love surrounding me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Those that shelter me from the harsh truth of my deepest flaws
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Professor X from the X-men. A man whose talents are used to back his convictions.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Alexander the Great, Lucius Cornelius Sulla and all who strived to bring hope to the downtrodden and weary
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My best friend, Nichola, my mother, my sisters and grandmothers.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Egwene al'Vere, Nynaeve al'Meara, Anna Marshall, Elspeth (From the Obernewton Chronicles)
Your favorite painter?: Anne Armstrong
Your favorite musician?: There are too many to choose from!
The quality you most admire in a man?: Truth, honesty and willingness to learn
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence and a certain joie de vivre
Your favorite virtue?: The intellect that doesn't exclude the value or weight of emotional depths.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, listening to music, singing, writing & building castles in the sky
Who would you have liked to be?: The real me.
Your most marked characteristic?: Introvertedness - in a very extroverted kind of way
What do you most value in your friends?: Intelligence and native talent
What is your principle defect?: Procrastination & dreaming of heights greater than others wish to aspire to or can understand
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never have the chance to fulfill my dreams.
What would you like to be?: The owner of a genie with no limit to the wishes
What is your favorite color?: the blue/green of the ocean
What is your favorite flower?: A lily
What is your favorite bird?: An owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Robert Jordan, David Eddings, Terry Pratchett & Raymond E. Feist
Who are your favorite poets?: Charles D'Orleans
Who are your heroes in real life?: Alexander the Great, Oscar Wilde, Alan Turing, Ian Roberts
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I, Victoria, Marie-Antoinette, Bodiccea
What are your favorite names?: Ishamel, Daffyd, Phillipe, Ryan, Andrei, Elspeth, Aviendha, Nynaeve, Egwene, Moiraine, Anna, Marie
What is it you most dislike?: Deception
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Charlemagne, Stalin, all those whom made it their goal to tear others down so as to assume the rightful places of those dispossesed.
What event in military history do you most admire?: The liberation of Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen and other foul concentration camps
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: consistency
How would you like to die?: Saving the world as much as it can be saved.
What is your present state of mind?: philosophical - and a little drunk from too much good bourbon
What is your motto?: It is better to rule in isolation, than to be one of the downtrodden masses.

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