Proust Questionnaire: Valentina's answers

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On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:28:43 UTC Valentina (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Being so filthy rich that you are completely oblivious of the world around you, of the poor&needy.
Where would you like to live?: New York
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Being loved and FEELING being loved, having a tender&protective partner, being accomplished
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Stupidity, lack of understanding minor things.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: None so far.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Champollion, Einstein, Kierkegaard
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: None.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Esther Greenwood...and we'll see later on.
Your favorite painter?: Edward Hopper
Your favorite musician?: INXS
The quality you most admire in a man?: Thoughtfoulness, moral sense, protectiveness, manners, empathy, the ability to listen
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Gentleness, kindness, inner beauty, empathy, the ability to listen
Your favorite virtue?: Kindness&empathy&the ability to listen
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, daydreaming night&day
Who would you have liked to be?: Since the question does not arise, I prefer not to answer it. All the same, I should very much like to be an accomplished scientist or doctor or healer.
Your most marked characteristic?: A craving to be loved
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, kindness, their love for me.
What is your principle defect?: Pride, extreme shyness, occasional lazyness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Ending up in a really bad situation, all b/c of my fault.
What would you like to be?: A better version of myself + an accomplished doctor, scientist, or healer.
What is your favorite color?: Bright red, navy blue, forest green, light pink.
What is your favorite flower?: The peony, the tulip, the delicate garden rose and His.
What is your favorite bird?: The gubbin.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Virginia Woolf, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Soren Kierkegaard, Ernest Hemingway
Who are your favorite poets?: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke
Who are your heroes in real life?: /
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Jeanne D' Arc
What are your favorite names?: Ava, Eva, Jacob, Julian
What is it you most dislike?: Sheer evilness, cruelty, stereotypes, infidelity.
What historical figures do you most despise?: Pol Pot, Hitler, Ceausescu and all the other cruel bastards...
What event in military history do you most admire?: Not sufficiently educated to say that.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The ability to sing, irresistible feminine charm.
How would you like to die?: Young&quickly&accomplished.
What is your present state of mind?: Depressed and isolated and confused.
What is your motto?: Don't have any (yet).

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