Proust questionnaire.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
to live alone

Where would you like to live?
In the city

What is your idea of earthly happiness?
To be surrounded my love and reality

To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
procrasination

Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
satirical figures that become instantly laughable

Who are your favorite characters in history?
Pliny, Custard, Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman

Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
my mother, women who are confident being women

Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
those that can duke it out with the men, verbally or physically

Your favorite painter?
Paul Klee

Your favorite musician?
Nina Simone

The quality you most admire in a man?
Passion, understanding

The quality you most admire in a woman?
Kindness, understanding, strength

Your favorite virtue?
patience

Your favorite occupation?
researching, loving, learning

Who would you have liked to be?
A punk kid in California (1970s)

Your most marked characteristic?
yearning for love in all its forms

What do you most value in your friends?
kindness and fearlessness to tell the truth

What is your principle defect?
impatience

What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Never having an education

What would you like to be?
an understanding and thoughtful version of myself

What is your favorite color?
purple

What is your favorite flower?
hyacinth

What is your favorite bird?
Peregrine Falcon

Who are your favorite prose writers?
None

Who are your favorite poets?
Socrates and anyone that wrote Satires in the Ancient World

Who are your heroes in real life?
Dr. Fetter, Dr. Schulz, my mother

Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Harriet Tubman and Hatshepsut

What are your favorite names?
Billy, Pookie, Ochocinco

What is it you most dislike?
myself when I make terrible mistakes

What historical figures do you most despise?
HItler's administration, Napoleon, Reagan

What event in military history do you most admire?
World War II

What natural gift would you most like to possess?
power to learn a language with ease and charm

How would you like to die?
Peacefully

What is your present state of mind?
Scattered

What is your motto?
I don't have one.

Thanks to Essential Man. The link for the questionnaire is on his site.
Joy D.