Proust Questionnaire: Vikram Krishnan's answers

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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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