Proust Questionnaire: s. a. hensley's answers

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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:09:48 UTC s. a. hensley (45) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to be separated from God
Where would you like to live?: where I live now
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to have ample time for reading
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: gossip
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: pierre bezukhov
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Maria Theresa, john adams,
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: eleanor roosevelt
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: jane eyre, dorothea brooke
Your favorite painter?: boucher
Your favorite musician?: johann sebastian bach
The quality you most admire in a man?: self control
The quality you most admire in a woman?: intelligence and gentleness
Your favorite virtue?: purity
Your favorite occupation?: reading
Who would you have liked to be?: concert pianist or a priest
Your most marked characteristic?: a desire for knowledge
What do you most value in your friends?: a sense of humor
What is your principle defect?: lack of charity
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have grown up in a broken home with no knowledge of family history
What would you like to be?: good to everyone
What is your favorite color?: blue
What is your favorite flower?: lilacs
What is your favorite bird?: cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: evelyn waugh, barbara pym
Who are your favorite poets?: dickinson and wordsworth
Who are your heroes in real life?: there are no men of virtue living
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: maria theresa, queen victoria, florence nightingale
What are your favorite names?: edward, charles, mary, augusta
What is it you most dislike?: laziness
What historical figures do you most despise?: hitler, marx, lenin, mohammed
What event in military history do you most admire?: the battle of white mountain
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: I would like to be a briliiant pianist
How would you like to die?: in a state of grace and with the Last Sacraments
What is your present state of mind?: too much obsession with my faults
What is your motto?: do the best you can and leave the rest to God

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