Proust Questionnaire: zig's answers

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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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