Proust Questionnaire: waypast's answers

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On Wed, 29 Sep 10 14:48:51 UTC waypast answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Working the same mindless job(just over broke), 40 hours a week 50 weeks a year for years or a lifetime...
Where would you like to live?: In a place where my neighbors respect my Liberty and my employer respects my dreams.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To do more than exist, or subsist, to travel and do things I actually want to do.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: ice cream, sugar.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Most of my heros were real people.
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, the Founders mostly.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: a character(s) in a book I'm trying to write
Your favorite painter?: the unknowns
Your favorite musician?: John Mellencamp though I despise his politics
The quality you most admire in a man?: courage to say and do what has to be said and done, what the majority lack...
The quality you most admire in a woman?: real common sense, what so few have, beyond knowing how to cook and clean, and a natural curiosity.
Your favorite virtue?: honesty
Your favorite occupation?: learning
Who would you have liked to be?: rich
Your most marked characteristic?: laziness, depression, the cycle thereof
What do you most value in your friends?: the ability to give a damn about something that matters, a quality few humans have
What is your principle defect?: disgust with my fellow man that leads to inaction
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: for Liberty to die
What would you like to be?: wealthy enough to travel and actually have a life not an existence...
What is your favorite color?: blue or gray
What is your favorite flower?: daffodils or march lilies as they are called around here
What is your favorite bird?: barred owl
Who are your favorite prose writers?: frank herbert
Who are your favorite poets?: emily dickinson, Rudyard Kipling
Who are your heroes in real life?: patriots who stand up for Liberty
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: women of the american revolution who actually fought
What are your favorite names?: a person makes their name not the other way 'round...
What is it you most dislike?: all the forms of slavery we exist under
What historical figures do you most despise?: politicians who pretend to be the opposite of what they are
What event in military history do you most admire?: any time tyranny is defeated, like we need to do here, now.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: greater self discipline
How would you like to die?: alone, as I have lived, without a bunch of people standing around pretending they're not glad it's not them that's dying...
What is your present state of mind?: pissed off at the mindlessness
What is your motto?: Only idiots and jailed politicians keep diaries....

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