Proust Questionnaire: Turtle Heart's answers

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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:05:12 UTC Turtle Heart answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To lose my children and my wife
Where would you like to live?: Where I already am-the country of my birth.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A loving family home, comfortable means, fulfillment of others and myself, broadening experiences.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness, selfishness, obsessive.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Elphaba, Glinda and Nettarose from Wicked.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: No favourites.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Kate Bush-a woman of genius leading an ordinary life.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elphaba.
Your favorite painter?: Realists.
Your favorite musician?: Kate Bush.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Intelligence and lack of pretension.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence, sense of humour.
Your favorite virtue?: Being true to oneself, whatever that may be.
Your favorite occupation?: Being and experiencing the world in it's full-on reality.
Who would you have liked to be?: No body else. I'm happy with who I am.
Your most marked characteristic?: A sense of humour.
What do you most value in your friends?: Being real without pretension.
What is your principle defect?: Weak will and self indulgence.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To lose my close family.
What would you like to be?: Myself, but with greater self control.
What is your favorite color?: Yellow.
What is your favorite flower?: Giant daisy-simple yet impressive.
What is your favorite bird?: Pink footed goose.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Curently, Gregory Maguire,
Who are your favorite poets?: Ted Hughes.
Who are your heroes in real life?: Anyone with a greater application of will than myself.
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: None that I can think of.
What are your favorite names?: Elphie, Pauline, Katy, Rachel.
What is it you most dislike?: My own worst qualities.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Defeat of Nazi Germany.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A focused mind and a strong will.
How would you like to die?: Aware of what was happening, over a protracted period, but with minimal suffering.
What is your present state of mind?: Feeling depressed.
What is your motto?: Look on the bright side.

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