Proust Questionnaire: pax's answers

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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:41:06 UTC pax (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: knowing without being able to do anything (yes, Kasssandra...)
Where would you like to live?: in a place where people do not hurt each other intentionally
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: a bright future
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those who stay strong and grow, choosing their own way instead of merely following
Who are your favorite characters in history?: nobody - they were just people, like you and me
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: women who manage to be successful and still be themselves
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: those who stay strong and grow, choosing their own way instead of merely following
Your favorite painter?: Alphonse Mucha, Luis Royo, Katsushika Hokusai
Your favorite musician?: no one really...
The quality you most admire in a man?: rationality, humour, intelligence, warmth, readiness to help
The quality you most admire in a woman?: rationality, humour, intelligence, warmth, readiness to help
Your favorite virtue?: from the ones Plato offers: prudence
Your favorite occupation?: dreaming
Who would you have liked to be?: me with more self-confidence and charisma
Your most marked characteristic?: insecurity
What do you most value in your friends?: openess, directness - there is no real friendship without them
What is your principle defect?: self-doubt, craving to be aknowledged, thinking too much about what others might think
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: there are too many and most I do not even dare to think about
What would you like to be?: me with more self-confidence and charisma
What is your favorite color?: That entirely depends on the context, though in general perhaps that green of fields in the spring which so far hardly any monitor can manage
What is your favorite flower?: any, that is not plucked yet
What is your favorite bird?: the owl (Athena's bird; the wisdom and the night)
Who are your favorite prose writers?: the line is too short to name them all :) And I would not like to have to chose one
Who are your favorite poets?: john milton
Who are your heroes in real life?: no one, though there are people I certainly would like to have certain traits from
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: nobody - they were just people, like you and me
What are your favorite names?: it's not the name, it's the idea - of a real person or the fictional character - behind it, that counts
What is it you most dislike?: bitterness, too many bad things grow out of it
What historical figures do you most despise?: too many to single certain people out
What event in military history do you most admire?: military? no thank you!
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: will power, charisma, rhetoric skills
How would you like to die?: really old and in my sleep, not knowing that death is to come
What is your present state of mind?: restless, but that's due to other things, not these questions
What is your motto?: Wenn du einmal diese Welt verlässt, sorge nicht dafür, dass du sie als guter Mensch verlässt, sondern dass die Welt, die du verlässt, gut ist

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