Proust Questionnaire: sj's answers

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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:24:22 UTC sj (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire:

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to never reach my full potential
Where would you like to live?: in a society with very little hypocrisy
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: achieving my dreams while remaining myself
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Heroes called fools or people otherwise not believed or recognized as heroes.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Joan of Arc, da Vinci, Kafka, Van Gogh, Keats
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: women "before their time"
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: heroines who aren't there to be pretty filler or objects; they behave realistically, and show strengths as well as weaknesses
Your favorite painter?: Dali
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: integrity, kindness, brains
The quality you most admire in a woman?: integrity, brains, straight-forwardness
Your favorite virtue?: truth
Your favorite occupation?: art, writing, thinking, learning--nothing in particular really
Who would you have liked to be?: no one
Your most marked characteristic?: quietly detached, but listening
What do you most value in your friends?: the truth, their true selves, their beliefs
What is your principle defect?: unwillingness to settle
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be ignorant of the universe around us
What would you like to be?: successful
What is your favorite color?: lime green
What is your favorite flower?: dandelions--make a wish
What is your favorite bird?: raven
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Phillip K. Dick, Mervyn Peake, Virginia Woolf
Who are your favorite poets?: Poe, Keats, beat poets
Who are your heroes in real life?: Katherine Hepburn, Stephen King, Richard Dawkins, Barack Obama, gender outlaws
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Queen Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, Queen Nefertiti
What are your favorite names?: Ones that begin with 'E' or 'A', especially the old-fashioned names from European languages
What is it you most dislike?: self-delusion, from anyone. myself included.
What historical figures do you most despise?: people who become what they vowed to stop
What event in military history do you most admire?: the christmas truce during WWI
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Ease
How would you like to die?: a better question: how do I want to live?
What is your present state of mind?: stalemate
What is your motto?: muss es sein? es muss sein! --as Beethoven said

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