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On Mon, 16 Aug 10 07:36:47 UTC zig answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
To be betrayed or abandoned by family.
Where would you like to live?
Somewhere without so many hipsters.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Love, music, good food, conversation and books. And yoga...
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
A cook's.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Falstaff, Isabel Archer, Wooster, too many to list.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Henry II of England, Alexander, Hadrian, Trajan, Malcolm X,, too many to list.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Can't thin of any off hand.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
All of Shakespeare's great female characters, esp Rosalind.
Your favorite painter?
Monet at this moment. also El Greco. Too many to list...
Your favorite musician?
Jimi Hendrix
The quality you most admire in a man?
Imagination, intelligence, compassion, self-awareness
The quality you most admire in a woman?
The same.
Your favorite virtue?
Humor.
Your favorite occupation?
Making music, making love, reading, yoga...
Who would you have liked to be?
Sir Richard Burton
Your most marked characteristic?
My big nose
What do you most value in your friends?
Financial generosity. ; )
What is your principle defect?
Laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To spend more than 3 hours with my mother.
What would you like to be?
Well-off from makig music...
What is your favorite color?
all of them.
What is your favorite flower?
Not sure.
What is your favorite bird?
Gyrfalcon.
Who are your favorite prose writers?
Maupassant, Flaubert, A. Dumas, EM Forster, early Henry James, Elmore Leonard, etc.
Who are your favorite poets?
Shakespeare, too many to list.
Who are your heroes in real life?
No answer...
Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Any of the pagan queens who fought the Roman Empire.
What are your favorite names?
Arabic, Jewish, Turkish, Japanese.
What is it you most dislike?
Watchng terrible Hollywood movies. Listening to Rush.
What historical figures do you most despise?
None really.
What event in military history do you most admire?
The battles against the US won by the Indians, Marathon, Poitiers.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Great ambition.
How would you like to die?
Asleep.
What is your present state of mind?
Foggy.
What is your motto?
Do unto others then split. ; )

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