Proust Questionnaire: Viktor Corzich's answers

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On Fri, 19 Nov 10 05:50:51 UTC Viktor Corzich (35) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have one's desires thwarted by another.
Where would you like to live?: An unobtrusive flat in Zurich, in anonymity.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A quiet afternoon with no obligations.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Those I recognize in myself.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Tyrion Lannister, Lord Toranaga, the Grey Mouser, the Underground Man
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Washington, Constantine Paleologus, Charles Martel, Socrates
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Mutter, and lately, Angela Merkel.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Mariko Toda
Your favorite painter?: Edvard Munch
Your favorite musician?: Gah....so many! Today I'll go with Trent Reznor
The quality you most admire in a man?: Stubborness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: The ability to laugh at my jokes :)
Your favorite virtue?: Immovable Determination
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, Thinking, Resting, other things ending in "ing"
Who would you have liked to be?: Louis XIV. He reaped the harvest at it's zenith, and got out at the right time.
Your most marked characteristic?: An obsessive turn of mind.
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty, tolerance of oddness
What is your principle defect?: lack of musical skill
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have ones desires thwarted by another
What would you like to be?: Cardinal Richelieu
What is your favorite color?: Royal blue.
What is your favorite flower?: Hah! The Rose....I'm so unoriginal!
What is your favorite bird?: Ducks.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Vonnegut, Irvine Welsh
Who are your favorite poets?: Bukowski, Kipling, Yeats, Betjeman, Shel Silverstein
Who are your heroes in real life?: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Pervez Musharraf, John Bolton
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I, trite as it is
What are your favorite names?: ALmost anything beginning with "V"
What is it you most dislike?: Controlling people
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler's too easy----I'll take Woodrow Wilson
What event in military history do you most admire?: the defense of Constantinople
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Musical talent
How would you like to die?: In the face of my enemies, content that I have done all I could.
What is your present state of mind?: Apprehensive
What is your motto?: Wisdom is hidden

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