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On Wed, 14 Dec 11 21:15:03 UTC res10k9v5@frontier.com answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

Your most marked characteristic?: A sense of humor, dry yet mischievous
What do you most value in your friends?: warmth, a sense of humor, intellectual heft
What is your principle defect?: Impatience
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have known the people I love
What would you like to be?: A better me
What is your favorite color?: Diana Vreeland's perfect red
What is your favorite flower?: birds-of-paradise w/anthuriums
What is your favorite bird?: red lorie
Who are your favorite prose writers?: living, James Lee Burke and Gloria Naylor; dead, Virginia Woolf and Dante
Who are your favorite poets?: Dante, William Carlos Williams, Yeats, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I wouln't impose that staus on anyone; to do so would be enormously cruel.
What are your favorite names?: Andrea Jeanne; David
What is it you most dislike?: I'm with Marcel on that one
What historical figures do you most despise?: Anyone who stood idly by his or her neighbor's blood, not oncce, but over and over again.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Operation Mincemeat
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a coloratura contralto voice, as adept at blues as the opera
How would you like to die?: I'll vote with Marcel on that one too, but I'll change the gender to "woman."
What is your present state of mind?: reasonably content
What is your motto?: "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell."--Simone Weil

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