Proust Questionnaire: Wanda's answers

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On Tue, 25 May 10 20:17:43 UTC Wanda (26) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: grief
Where would you like to live?: in a far country
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: contentment
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: sensuality
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Starbuck, The Little Prince, Huckleberry Finn, Le Grand Meaulnes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Justin Martyr, Charles Darwin, Albert Schweitzer
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Rachel Carson, Mary Hunter Austin, Mary Draper Ingles, Anna Etheridge
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Antonia, Rima, Emma Bovary, Mehitabel the Cat
Your favorite painter?: Camille Pissarro
Your favorite musician?: Maurice Ravel
The quality you most admire in a man?: self-sacrifice
The quality you most admire in a woman?: empathy
Your favorite virtue?: charity
Your favorite occupation?: reading, evolutionary research
Who would you have liked to be?: someone better than I am
Your most marked characteristic?: a desire to succeed
What do you most value in your friends?: empathy, intelligence, good cheer
What is your principle defect?: impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: failure
What would you like to be?: a successful person
What is your favorite color?: moss green
What is your favorite flower?: the rose
What is your favorite bird?: the barn swallow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Willa Cather, Alain-Fourniar, Gustave Flaubert, Anais Nin
Who are your favorite poets?: Walt Whitman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Elinor Wylie, Robinson Jeffers
Who are your heroes in real life?: Peter Westbroek, Konrad Lorenz, Loren Eisley
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Gertrude B. Elion, Anita Roberts, Barbara McClintock,
What are your favorite names?: those of my friends
What is it you most dislike?: stupidity, aggression
What historical figures do you most despise?: politicians
What event in military history do you most admire?: peace
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: telepathy
How would you like to die?: I wouldn't
What is your present state of mind?: a little tired
What is your motto?: Keep going

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