Proust Questionnaire: ks's answers

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On Tue, 24 Aug 10 23:39:37 UTC ks (33) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: boredom
Where would you like to live?: where I presently live
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: creating beauty or destroying ugliness
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: self loathing
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: the flawed, faltering seekers
Who are your favorite characters in history?: the ones about which nothing is written who left only a ripple on the cosmos from their breif presence
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my hard working mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: There are no real women in literature.
Your favorite painter?: Klimt
Your favorite musician?: Jonathan Larson
The quality you most admire in a man?: intelligence, humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: confidence, grace
Your favorite virtue?: humility
Your favorite occupation?: running mountain trails
Who would you have liked to be?: a famous composer before sex was so dangerous
Your most marked characteristic?: the need to create
What do you most value in your friends?: understanding
What is your principle defect?: rigidity
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have been born any later in history
What would you like to be?: loved and respected
What is your favorite color?: the sun on her hair
What is your favorite flower?: any which becomes fruit
What is your favorite bird?: the blue heron
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Melville, Conrad
Who are your favorite poets?: Shelley, Poe, Coleridge
Who are your heroes in real life?: anyone who does not strive for fame but instead works hard and lives well
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: none
What are your favorite names?: What does this question even mean?
What is it you most dislike?: waste
What historical figures do you most despise?: capitalist tycoons
What event in military history do you most admire?: my father's honorable discharge
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a clear, beautiful, tenor singing voice
How would you like to die?: comfortably
What is your present state of mind?: listless
What is your motto?: I used to try to enjoy maxims. Then I read, and loved, George Eliot's opinion on them and I purposefully discarded them all.

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