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On Tue, 18 May 10 07:14:34 UTC Vikram Krishnan (24) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be forced to violate my sense of ethics, to be poor
Where would you like to live?
Vienna, New york, London
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
A good book, a fireplace, a hot chocolate, a good bottle of petrus
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Anger
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Hari Seldon, Captain Nemo, Andrei Bolkonski
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Robert Oppenheimer, Henry VIII, Cato, Cicero, Margeret Thatcher, Hypatia
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
A women of genius
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Scarlet O Hara
Your favorite painter?
El Greco
Your favorite musician?
Beethoven, Wagner, Vivaldi
The quality you most admire in a man?
A passion for searching the truth, anyone who can speak truth to power
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Manliness
Your favorite virtue?
A zeal for the truth
Your favorite occupation?
Reading, Debating
Who would you have liked to be?
In the words of Popey 'I y'am what I y'am'
Your most marked characteristic?
A desire to be admired
What do you most value in your friends?
An ability to tell me the truth without sweetning or malice, i.e. objectively
What is your principle defect?
Neuroticism
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Poverty
What would you like to be?
A great writer
What is your favorite color?
Blue
What is your favorite flower?
Crysanthemum
What is your favorite bird?
Crow
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Isaac Asimov, Jules Verne, Flaubert
Who are your favorite poets?
Shelley, Wilfred Owen, Slyvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?
Robert Oppenheimer
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Hypatia
What are your favorite names?
an idiotic question
What is it you most dislike?
All that televangelists stand for: deception to make money even if it involves pain for others. I hate it when i see it in anyone
What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot
What event in military history do you most admire?
Battle of El Alamein
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Charm
How would you like to die?
Peacefully in an armchair
What is your present state of mind?
Same as Proust: "Annoyance at having to think about myself in order to answer these questions"
What is your motto?
Sapere Aude

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