Proust Questionnaire: Zozobra's answers

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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:45:47 UTC Zozobra (17) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To die with no accomplishments and no lover
Where would you like to live?: In a small town on an island
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: A lover, other loved ones, the means to create as I wish, access to all the arts, close proximity to nature
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: To sloth
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Those who are the most alive: Macbeth, Donnie Darko, Lester Burnham
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Anyone with the name Roosevelt, Socrates, Rousseau
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Those who ignore their sex and act as humans
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who do not follow the female archetype: Lady Macbeth, Hayley Stark, Beatrix Kiddo
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Aaron Turner
The quality you most admire in a man?: Life
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Love
Your favorite occupation?: Creation for the sake of creation
Who would you have liked to be?: I have all the time in the world to be myself in whatever way I see fit
Your most marked characteristic?: A paradoxical love of logic and emotion
What do you most value in your friends?: Empathy
What is your principle defect?: Sloth
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To never have a lover
What would you like to be?: An accomplished creator, a messenger of reason
What is your favorite color?: What Proust said
What is your favorite flower?: The white rose
What is your favorite bird?: The pelican
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kropotkin, Orwell, Pullman
Who are your favorite poets?: Eliot, Plath, Shakespeare, cummings
Who are your heroes in real life?: Those with fiery hearts and lukewarm minds
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Eleanor (as previously cited), Emma Goldman
What are your favorite names?: Nathan, Noah, Ophelia, Valerie
What is it you most dislike?: Hatred
What historical figures do you most despise?: Adolf Hitler, Henry VIII, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria
What event in military history do you most admire?: The times of peace
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Discipline
How would you like to die?: In the arms of, and at the same time as, my lover
What is your present state of mind?: Exhausted
What is your motto?: Speak from your heart. Let your head do the rest.

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