Proust Questionnaire

[Nikita]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

2. Where would you like to live?

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?

6. Your favorite musician?

7. Your favorite virtue?

8. Your most marked characteristic?

9. The quality you most like in a man?

10. The quality you most like in a woman?

11. What do you most value in your friends?

12. What is your principle defect?

13. What is your favorite occupation?

14. What is your dream of happiness?

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

16. What would you like to be?

17. In what country would you like to live?

18. What is your favorite color?

19. What is your favorite flower?

20. What is your favorite bird?

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?

22. Who are your favoite poets?

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

25. Who are your favorite composers?

26. Who are your favorite painters?

27. Who are your heroes in real life?

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?

29. What are your favorite names?

30. What is it you most dislike?

31. What historical figures do you most despise?

32. What event in military history do you most admire?

33. What reform do you most admire?

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?

35. How would you like to die?

36. What is your present state of mind?

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

38. What is your motto?


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[mayumi]

that's a longasssed questionaire, like those autograph books in grade school.

1. when you have everything yet find yourself unhappy.
2. beach
3. bunches of money
4. he's not yet dead, but I admire John Nash
5. i don't think i have a heroine...catwoman?
6. singer, currently Amy Winehouse
7. loyalty
8. serenity
9. galante..I'm a bit old fashioned
10. strong
11. they love me
12. being slow to decide
13. planning, diary writing
14. freedom to do anything i want
15. genocide
16. ...


okay, that's it. Its just too long.

[zibber]

DISCLAIMER: zibber is tired and bored and can not be held accountable for the absence of periods (or coherence)

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being stuck in a society the foundations of which disgust me

2. Where would you like to live?
A cabin on Skye with a little bit of fertile land around it.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
A cabin on Skye with a little bit of fertile land around it.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Gotama, (Aldous) Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Gee.. women who don't shave their legs and armpits and go without make-up.

6. Your favorite musician?
Ronnie van Zant

7. Your favorite virtue?
Nonviolence

8. Your most marked characteristic?
I'm really calm compared to most people

9. The quality you most like in a man?
10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Doing one's best to become and remain aware of the cause, meaning and implication of one's thoughts and actions

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Not calling me all the time

12. What is your principle defect?
Principal. I take people who spell poorly a little less seriously, unless I knew them before I read them.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
My dream job would be some kind of spiritual guide, but nobody should have to pay for spiritual guidance. I'd be most happy just taking care of my own food and housing.

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Self-sufficience.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Being stuck in concepts.

16. What would you like to be?
Self-sufficient.

17. In what country would you like to live?
Somewhere where there is still a place for those preferring to go under the radar.

18. What is your favorite color?
Brownish

19. What is your favorite flower?
I just like flowers.

20. What is your favorite bird?
Again, "love" 'em all :P

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Huxley & Vonnegut

22. Who are your favoite poets?
dial81, Jason Hogans

23. Who ARE your favorite heroES of fiction?
Tom Ripley, heh

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Stumped me

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Jack Bruce

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Jesus fuck. Yoshitoshi, Poussin, Ingres, Piero di Cosimo. I could go on for ages, but I'll make myself leave it at that.

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Gee, Aldous Huxley?

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Any girl who's ever gone against conventions

29. What are your favorite names?
My own, obviously

30. What is it you most dislike?
This motherfucker across the office from me WHISTLING LOUDER THAN THE RADIO

Sorry about that. Long day

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
No idear

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
Probably something from pre-modern Japan, when pressed, but who actually admires military events beyond some kind of abstract strategic appreciation?

33. What reform do you most admire?
Any kind of emancipation.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
It's not a "natural gift" if I don't already possess it.

35. How would you like to die?
Suddenly. Considering my loved ones, with some warning. Personally, though, really abruptly.

36. What is your present state of mind?
Office-tired (fatigue stemming from sitting at a desk for hours) and not wanting to go to that birthday party tonight

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Why consciously indulge behaviour you know to be faulty? Either it's not faulty or you can't help it.

38. What is your motto?
Question concepts.

[Astra]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

I've got a slight obsessional kind of fear of being put in solitary confinement in jail for years on end. There, I've said it now :embarassed: Kind of ironic for an introvert isn't it?


2. Where would you like to live?

Somewhere bigger.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?

Plenty of time to think, plenty of space, beautiful surroundings, a supportive, fun relationship.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?

Elizabeth the First.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?

Rosa Parks, the Suffragettes (in the UK) - the usual crew.

6. Your favorite musician?

dunno, got lots.

7. Your favorite virtue?

Justice, with Fortitude a close second.

8. Your most marked characteristic?

Arsiness

9. The quality you most like in a man?

Moral courage

10. The quality you most like in a woman?

as above

11. What do you most value in your friends?

Warmth, humour, thoughtfulness

12. What is your principle defect?

Self-absorbtion

13. What is your favorite occupation?

Pub quizzes

14. What is your dream of happiness?

didn't I answer that already at Q3?

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

The death of all those close to me. Or Armageddon really.

16. What would you like to be?

Richer.

17. In what country would you like to live?

Britain, with houses in France and Italy.

18. What is your favorite color?

Red

19. What is your favorite flower?

Old English Roses

20. What is your favorite bird?

Peacocks

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?

Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Kate Atkinson, Rose Tremain, lots of others

22. Who are your favourite poets?

Not so fussed about poetry tbh, although I like the Wilfred Owen and Seigfried Sassoon stuff we did at school

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

Mr Rochester (Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte)

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Jane Eyre (sorry to be trite - I've read a huge number of novels but am rubbish at recalling their contents)

25. Who are your favorite composers?

uh, Mozart? Don't know much classical music really

26. Who are your favorite painters?

Caravaggio, El Greco, Velasquez, Goya, Botticelli

27. Who are your heroes in real life?

My mum (trite again, I know - I don't really idealise people that way)

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?

another one I've already answered I think

29. What are your favorite names?

My children's

30. What is it you most dislike?

Rats

31. What historical figures do you most despise?

genocidal dictators in general

32. What event in military history do you most admire?

not really my thing, sorry

33. What reform do you most admire?

Universal suffrage, the abolition of slavery, the introduction of the National Health Service in the UK.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?

Musical ability

35. How would you like to die?

Of old age

36. What is your present state of mind?

Exhausted

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Eating dessert

[jikin]

Wow, the insanity...but I am bored at the moment.

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
not realizing, or not acknowledging, that the way out of your misery is right in front of you

2. Where would you like to live?
Cambodia


3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
making a difference, no matter how small

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Jesus, Gandhi

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Lillian Trasher

6. Your favorite musician?
too many to decide

7. Your favorite virtue?
peace

8. Your most marked characteristic?
that I accept others despite of their faults

9. The quality you most like in a man?
gentleness

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
intelligence

11. What do you most value in your friends?
acceptance

12. What is your principle defect?
distrusting and skeptical

13. What is your favorite occupation?
humanitarian/missionary work

14. What is your dream of happiness?
being able to give my life to a good cause

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Never making a drop of difference in the life of others

16. What would you like to be?
brave

17. In what country would you like to live?
Cambodia

18. What is your favorite color?
blue

19. What is your favorite flower?
tiger lilly

20. What is your favorite bird?
red crown crane

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
hmmm... I don't think I have one

22. Who are your favorite poets?
Poe, Rod McKuen

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Don't currently have one

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
same as above

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Gershwin

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Vermeer, Degas, Hasui Kawase, Shotei (Hiroaki Takahashi)


27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Those who are willing to give their lives in order to help others


28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
any who have gone against their society's norms to make a difference

29. What are your favorite names?
Regis, Momiji, Johannes, Hatori, Chihiro, Charlotte

30. What is it you most dislike?
people who judge others by their nation, color, economic status.....

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Pol Pot

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
No clue


33. What reform do you most admire?
Once again: no clue

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
None that I don't already have

35. How would you like to die?
either of old age in my sleep, or for a cause I believe in

36. What is your present state of mind?
calm and slightly bored

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
ummmmmm......

38. What is your motto?
He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose

[rewhu]

Might I suggest that we all use spoiler tags?

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
I don’t have children, but I would imagine the loss of a child would be devastating.

2. Where would you like to live?
Specifically, I don’t know. Generally, some place that’s warm and sunny for most of the year.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Sunshine, warm sand, cool salt water, surf, etc.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
There are a lot but for the sake of answering I’ll say the Roman Emperors

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
My mother and my sister.

6. Your favorite musician?
That’s too difficult to answer. I can’t pick just one.

7. Your favorite virtue?
It’s a toss up between directness or loyalty.

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Directness

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Sense of humor

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Sense of humor

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Sense of humor

12. What is your principle defect?
Over thinking

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Writing…paid writing

14. What is your dream of happiness?
The fulfillment of short and long-term goals

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Wasting an opportunity I’ve been waiting my whole life for

16. What would you like to be?
Among many other things, I’d like to be a valued friend.

17. In what country would you like to live?
I really enjoy living in the US, although with more travel I might change my mind.

18. What is your favorite color?
Black

19. What is your favorite flower?
Carnation

20. What is your favorite bird?
I used to have a yellow finch named Petey. I’d choose him.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
There are a lot so I’ll just pick three at random: Douglas Adams, Neil Gaimen, Mark Salzman.

22. Who are your favoite poets?
Three at random: Emily Dickinson, Nazim Hikmet, Philip Larkin

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Richard Mayhew from Neverwhere and Colonel Sun from The Laughing Sutra

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Robin Hudson from Sparkle Hayter’s series and Linda Hamilton from the Terminator movie and book series

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Composers of classical music? Anybody who has produced an inspiring march.

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Oskana Badrak, Patrick Leger, Matthew Woodson

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Thomas

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Sojourner Truth and the entire Suffragist movement

29. What are your favorite names?
James, Julius, Violet

30. What is it you most dislike?
People who are fake

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
John Lennon

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
The swift rise and fall of the Nazi regime

33. What reform do you most admire?
Fuel prices

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ability to play a 12 piece drum kit with great skill

35. How would you like to die?
Geez, in my sleep I guess

36. What is your present state of mind?
Rested and relatively content

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Procrastination

38. What is your motto?
I have no time for other people’s drama.

[Nikita]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being trapped and helpless.

2. Where would you like to live?
Outer space, if I could do so without needing any external accoutrements

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being free to go anywhere and do anything, no limitations.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Patton, Harriet Tubman, Galileo, Copernicus, DaVinci, Nefertiti, Boudica, Leonidas, Louis XIV

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
None.

6. Your favorite musician?
Billy Joel

7. Your favorite virtue?
Truth.

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Irreverence.

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Loyalty.

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Depth.

11. What do you most value in your friends?
A sense of humor.

12. What is your principle defect?
Procrastination.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Exploration, dismantling outmoded systems and ideas, challenging the status quo, never giving up

14. What is your dream of happiness?
To end all suffering in the world.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To not take action to stop an atrocity when it is within my power to do so.

16. What would you like to be?
Free.

17. In what country would you like to live?
All of them.

18. What is your favorite color?
Black, White, Orange, Deep Red, Aqua, Dark Grey, & Hot Pink

19. What is your favorite flower?
Orchid

20. What is your favorite bird?
Golden Eagle

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
does Hemingway count?

22. Who are your favoite poets?
Dorothy Parker, Poe, Frost, Shakespeare, William Cullen Bryant, John Donne, and William Blake

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Jason Bourne

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Xena, Kali Ma (not sure how to count mythological figures)

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Mozart, Faure, Delibes, Samuel Barber, Menotti, Verdi

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Michael Parkes, Henry Asencio (well, my favorite painting is done by him), DaVinci

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
None.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
those already said above

29. What are your favorite names?
What is in a name?

30. What is it you most dislike?
Ignorance, stupidity, slavery, prejudice, superficiality

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Hitler, Bin Laden, Pol Pot, the Interahamwe...

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
the fall of the Berlin Wall

33. What reform do you most admire?
the abolition of slavery

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
brilliance in math and science - I would have loved to have been an astronaut

35. How would you like to die?
Screaming

36. What is your present state of mind?
Distracted

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
in others?: slow learning, when the person wants to learn and to understand

38. What is your motto?
Dare to Outstare the Sun

[dragonsscout]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being totally ignored by everyone?

2. Where would you like to live?
In a small to medium town, pretty, relatively close to a mid-large city. Davis fits the bill, though I'm sure there are others. Oh good schools are a must. I don't have kids, but when I do I want them to go to good schools.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
No clue. A warm dry bed, full stomach, some good friends, and a significant other?

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Don't really have any.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
As above.

6. Your favorite musician?
Don't have one. I tend to like the Pogues, Enya, the Chieftains, some Fort Minor, some Eminem, some Mama Cass, etc. Variety is nice.

7. Your favorite virtue?
Vice. :laugh: Umm, moderation?

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Physically, my eyes or my lanky build. Personally, my versatility.

9. The quality you most like in a man?
As a friend, having good intent. As an acquaintance, having a functioning brain.

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Same as a man. Romantically, probably some combo of the two.

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Their ethics and principles, respect.

12. What is your principle defect?
My introversion?

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Student, but without homework. That pays? Hmm... don't know yet.

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Being able to learn things, then solve problems?

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Ooooh, Casandra in Greek mythology had it pretty bad. Everyone thinks you're crazy, you can foresee the future but are powerless, get raped, your family gets brutally murdered & raped, you get enslaved, then murdered. Oh, and you're a woman in ancient Greece...

16. What would you like to be?
A reformer who better the lives of others, including future lives.

17. In what country would you like to live?
US, UK, Canada, I dunno.

18. What is your favorite color?
Blue, just about any shade.

19. What is your favorite flower?
Cherry blossoms and orange blossoms

20. What is your favorite bird?
Barn Owl? I dunno...

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
I have a lot. Pratchett, Huxley, Orwell,

22. Who are your favorite poets?
I don't really have any favorites here.

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Don't have one, but I tend to like people with brains, who can kick butt, yet have good intentions. Mr. Darcy and Jason Bourne both rank kind of high.

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Same as heroes.

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Hans Zimmer, Mozart, quite a few others...

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Cezanne, John Singer Sargent, Monet, Fanz Marc, Vermeer, Velasquez, Picasso, Goya, etc.

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Can't think of any.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
See number 5.

29. What are your favorite names?
Jacob and Rachel are two big ones that I like, but there are a lot.

30. What is it you most dislike?
People who harm others for relatively small gain.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Oh so many. Way too many to list, and I can't decide which one(s) are the worst.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
Umm, the second part of what Zibber said. I guess D-Day or the Israeli capture of the Egyptian 3rd army (while not destroying it) would be the greatest military victory. Otherwise, the Geneva Conventions would be pretty high up.

33. What reform do you most admire?
Any personal reform in which one decides to do something to better (or not worsen) the lives of others. I don't know as far as legal reforms go.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
I don't know. That's sort of an odd question.

35. How would you like to die?
Quickly, when I'm relatively old. Not much preference on how really, bullets, falls, and strokes in the right spots all work.

36. What is your present state of mind?
Overall calm, but a bit anxious & tired.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Procrastination, like just about everyone else.

38. What is your motto?
I don't really have one. A couple of mantras to remind myself of things that I may forget or find important, but no real motto. A couple of mantras are "everything in moderation, including moderation" and "put yourself in other people's shoes."

[rflki3]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Realizing that you have no way out

2. Where would you like to live?
Iceland

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Freedom, love, I dunno

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Caravaggio, Van Gogh, Spartacus

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
don't have one

6. Your favorite musician?
The Beatles

7. Your favorite virtue?
Integrity

8. Your most marked characteristic?
OCD

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Loyalty, integrity, honesty, intelligence, humor, fun

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
same as above

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Fun, Loyal

12. What is your principle defect?
bad social skills

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Painter

14. What is your dream of happiness?
see #3

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Prison for life, death of a loved one

16. What would you like to be?
Wise

17. In what country would you like to live?
Iceland

18. What is your favorite color?
Navy Blue

19. What is your favorite flower?
Roses

20. What is your favorite bird?
Crow

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
don't have any

22. Who are your favorite poets?
don't have any

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
V from V for Vendetta

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Jane Eyre

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Beethoven

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Caravaggio, Van Gogh

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
none

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Jane Austen

29. What are your favorite names?
James, Daniel, Emily

30. What is it you most dislike?
Ignorance

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Henry VIII

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
I dunno

33. What reform do you most admire?
umm...

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Artistic ability

35. How would you like to die?
Quickly, in my 20s or 30s

36. What is your present state of mind?
calm

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
procrastination

38. What is your motto?
cant really think of anything

[OrrDavey]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Not knowing where you stand and not knowing how to begin.

2. Where would you like to live?

In a private home with a forest for a backyard and a beach for a front yard.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?

What the hell is that? Haha.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?

The ones that almost got away with ruling the world.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?

Palin. A true American heroine.

6. Your favorite musician?

Red Hot Chili Peppers

7. Your favorite virtue?

Responsibility

8. Your most marked characteristic?

Extreme sarcasm - but it is beginning to fade

9. The quality you most like in a man?

Hard work

10. The quality you most like in a woman?

Beauty

11. What do you most value in your friends?

Being there for each other when something serious happens.

12. What is your principle defect?

I am ridiculously introverted.

13. What is your favorite occupation?

I genuinely enjoy accounting.

14. What is your dream of happiness?

This sounds really messed up... I like to have control of my situation.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

No one misfortune but many bad ones happening at the same time

16. What would you like to be?

Powerful

17. In what country would you like to live?

Indifferent - somewhere developed, though.

18. What is your favorite color?

Black.

19. What is your favorite flower?

I don't have one.

20. What is your favorite bird?

Again, I don't have one.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?

What is a prose writer?

22. Who are your favoite poets?

I don't have one... wow this is kind of strange.

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

Kilgore Trout

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Petra Arkanian

25. Who are your favorite composers?

Pachelbel - I really like cannon

26. Who are your favorite painters?

Salvador Dali for paint

27. Who are your heroes in real life?

Warren Buffet

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?

Cleopatra

29. What are your favorite names?

Malachi - I don't know why but I like that one.

30. What is it you most dislike?

Actually, nothing.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?

Karl Marx. And all of the religious fanatics that killed a ton of people.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?

The battle of Normandy.

33. What reform do you most admire?

I'm not sure.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?

I was already given a lot of natural gifts. One of the only things I wish could be different is that I never had allergies... or maybe that I was naturally a better body builder. But again, I already have a lot. I cannot really ask for too much more.

35. How would you like to die?

Indifferent.

36. What is your present state of mind?

Relaxed.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

I am confused by this question.

38. What is your motto?

I don't have one.

[True Rune]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Powerlessness and stupidity. In other words being stupid and ignorant and unable to do anything about it.

2. Where would you like to live?
In seclusion, but not too far from civilization. Any area that does not get routinely devastated by nature or is crawling with spiders is fine.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Learning and serving.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Jesus(If that counts) and Joan of Arc.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
..I don't know, but there are many women I respect.

6. Your favorite musician?
Yasanori Mitsuda, I'm a game music geek.

7. Your favorite virtue?
Wisdom/Prudence
8. Your most marked characteristic?
Level-headed

9. The quality you most like in a man?
One who can keep his cool and doesn't judge others based on appearance, many of our problems would not be around if man only disregarded such things.

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Attractive wise, is intelligence and a love for the Lord, but otherwise intelligence/kindness.

11. What do you most value in your friends?
I don't know, really. Loyalty perhaps?

12. What is your principle defect?
Laziness.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Martial Arts master or Scholar

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Ultimate power, sadly..

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Betrayal then death that leads to oppresion

16. What would you like to be?
Strong, wise, and courageous.

17. In what country would you like to live?
Any country that allows me enough freedom to withdraw.

18. What is your favorite color?
..Turquoise

19. What is your favorite flower?
I don't really know.

20. What is your favorite bird?
Hummingbird

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Eh...

22. Who are your favoite poets?
Eh..
23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Too many to choose from.

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Tear from Tales of the Abyss

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Nobou Uematsu..

26. Who are your favorite painters?
...

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
There are a few I deeply respect, but heroes?


28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Joan of Arc, A few of the first activists for women's rights.

29. What are your favorite names?
Alicia, Anastasia, Fate..

30. What is it you most dislike?
Being over-emotional, hating people for no good reason, arrogance.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
The ones who claimed Christianity, but did not care to live it.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
Perhaps the battle of He Fei.

33. What reform do you most admire?
The end of slavery.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Great intellect, or acrobatics.

35. How would you like to die?
Quickly..

36. What is your present state of mind?
...
37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Procrastinating, gluttony

38. What is your motto?

[thatfox]

1. Deep depression and suicidal thoughts.

2. Alaska, Canada, or Idaho.

3. Being able to have a lot of free time, enough money to buy what you want and a large amount of knowledge.

4. Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and Isaac Newton.

5. I'm actually not too sure on this one.

6. All-American Rejects.

7. Truth.

8. My intelligence.

9. Raw knowledge.

10. Raw knowledge.

11. Someone to talk to on a high level to hear other's opinions.

12. Overanalysis of situations.

13. Photography.

14. Having enough money to buy what I want and not have to worry about expenses.

15. Losing mental or physical abilities due to stroke, heart attack, accident, etc.

16. A wildlife photographer.

17. US or Canada.

18. Purple.

19. Violet.

20. Sparkling Violetear

21. Don't really read Prose or Poetry.

22. See 21.

23. Ironman is my favourite because he created his superpowers.

24. Catwoman.

25. Mozart.

26. Pablo Picasso

27. I guess I could say anyone who has proven themselves to be more knowledgeable than myself.

28. Joan of Arc.

29. Mariah and Matthew.

30. Games of luck or things that are out of my control.

31. I don't know if one really sticks out at me, however I think that the way the americans treated the Native Americans in the early years was unacceptable.

32. The Revolutionary War, because people actually fought for their country and people were in full support of them for it and thankful for what they did for their country.

33. None really jump to mind.

34. Savantism paired with the ability to function as I can now.

35. Old and slowly but not painfully.

36. Calm and collected.

37. Procrastination.

38. "Say what you mean and mean what you say" is a very good description of what I normally tell people.

[Antares]

1. Worthlessness
2. Australia
3. Achievement
4. Beethoven, Gamow, Faraday, Zwicky, Machiavelli
5. I have none
6. McFly
7. Ahhhh... Pragmaticism
8. Adaptable
9. Wit
10.Depth
11.Companionship
12.Lack of concentration... like now.
13.Astronomer
14.This is too general.
15.Stuck in a pickle
16.Successful?
17.Again, Australia
18.Sky Blue
19.White Lily
20.Peregrine Falcon
21.Don't read those
22.I'm just going to say Catullus, since I don't like Poe, Homer or Goethe, and I honestly don't know enough poets
23.Luke Skywalker- the only hero I actually bothered with. I don't like heroes; main the anti heroes and the villains.
24.Eponine Thenadier
25.Beethoven, Dvorak
26.Don't like painters
27.Nobody
28.Anne Boleyn
29.Alexandra, Katharina, Claire, Prudence
30.Stupidity
31.Aaron Burr, Nero, Mao, Henry VIII (see the trend here)
32.Six Day War
33.Rationalism
34.Time management
35.Old age
36.Bored, tired and frustrated that I'm still doing this instead of homework
37.Insensitivity; not that I care
38."entangling alliances with none", applied on a social basis. Don't get attached.

[Kisai]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Boredom.


2. Where would you like to live?

San Francisco


3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?

A well stocked laboratory, library, free university courses, plenty of funding, being able to dine out at restaurants whenever, good health and a harem.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?

This would be a really long list, here's a short version. But really: anyone who's had a bright idea, any successful military strategist, any ruler who came up with interesting ways to approach problems, anyone who pursued and acheived excellence.

Augustus Caeser
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Isaac Newton
Leonardo da Vinci
Liu Pang
Michael Feynman
Plato



5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?

Errr.. Rosa Parks..?

6. Your favorite musician?

Hybrid, a Swansea breakbeat electronica band.

7. Your favorite virtue?

Cleverness.


8. Your most marked characteristic?

My deep set green eyes.


9. The quality you most like in a man?

Dominance.

10. The quality you most like in a woman?

Dominance.

11. What do you most value in your friends?

The ability to have a good time with them.

12. What is your principle defect?

I dismiss people too readily. I don't see them as important.

13. What is your favorite occupation?

Mad scientist/engineer.

14. What is your dream of happiness?

Always to have something new and interesting to do.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?

To be unable to use my body to interface with the world.

16. What would you like to be?

Myself, no matter where I am.

17. In what country would you like to live?

United States

18. What is your favorite color?

Gray.

19. What is your favorite flower?

Northern periwinkle (the blue kind, not the southern violet type)

20. What is your favorite bird?

Crows.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?

Gene Wolfe
Jack Vance

22. Who are your favoite poets?

Charles Baudlaire
William Blake

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?

The Handsome Monkey King from _Journey to the West_

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Agatha Heterodyne from _Girl Genius_


25. Who are your favorite composers?

Mozart & Bach

26. Who are your favorite painters?

Picasso & Klee

27. Who are your heroes in real life?

Nobody. If there was a real one, it would be Baron Klaus von Wulfenbach from _Girl Genius_. Supremely smart, mad scientist, rules all of Europe fairly, feared, not loved.


28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?

Rosa Parks? It's not my fault women are under-represented!

29. What are your favorite names?

Laura, Allegra, Renfield, Rosen, Steiner, Josephine, Abraxas, Serrafina, Belasco

30. What is it you most dislike?

People being cruel to one another.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?

Those asses who burnt down the Library of Alexandria.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?

The battle of Marathon. Holy crap.

33. What reform do you most admire?

The repeal of democracy and the rulership of meritocracy.

Sorry, that hasn't happened yet.


34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?

Perfect recall.


35. How would you like to die?

Swordfight in the city streets.


36. What is your present state of mind?

Pretty good. Busy.


37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Too many video games.

38. What is your motto?


Scientia est potestas est voluptas. Knowledge is power is pleasure.

I also say "Act according to your pleasure."

[Angellus]

Hurr's mine now. o_O

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? - having everything but no one to share it with, as well as being unhappy.

2. Where would you like to live? - the deep forests of the Yukon

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? - when 2/3 of the earth's human population is gone and nature is taking back what the humans have destroyed or taken

4. Who are your favorite characters in history? - Hannibal (carthaginian leader), Augustus Ceaser

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life? - Myself?

6. Your favorite musician? - Apocalyptica

7. Your favorite virtue? - patience

8. Your most marked characteristic? - loyalty

9. The quality you most like in a man? - intelligence

10. The quality you most like in a woman? - independence

11. What do you most value in your friends? - loyalty

12. What is your principle defect? - my pride

13. What is your favorite occupation? - archery

14. What is your dream of happiness? - living without money and human assistance in the wilderness

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? - for everything to be taken away from you and nothing you do will make your situation any better

16. What would you like to be? - a stronger, wiser person

17. In what country would you like to live? - Canada

18. What is your favorite color? - Blue

19. What is your favorite flower? - gold carnation

20. What is your favorite bird? - white owl

21. Who are your favorite prose writers? - James Patterson

22. Who are your favoite poets? - unknown

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? - Tiberiu Korzha from "A Darker Crimson"

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? - Sorcha from "Daughter of the Forest"

25. Who are your favorite composers? - Yoko Kanno, Mozart, Bach, Nobuo Uematsu

26. Who are your favorite painters? - *shrugs*

27. Who are your heroes in real life? - me?

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history? - me?

29. What are your favorite names? - Angellus, Eischen, Roane, Murleius, Taro

30. What is it you most dislike? - when people don't listen to me

31. What historical figures do you most despise? - Marie Antoinette and Louis-AugusteXVI

32. What event in military history do you most admire? - the battles between the Athens and Spartans

33. What reform do you most admire? - reform in England after or I think before the American Revolution

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess? - completely fit and healthy body (very sickly-ish person)

35. How would you like to die? - falling from a cliff or a tall building and going SPLAT into the ground

36. What is your present state of mind? - sad, frustrated, longing, deeply in love

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? - brash, prideful, stubborn

38. What is your motto? - Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall.

[AliTree]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? probably the death of a child or kidnapping of a child.

2. Where would you like to live? NY.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? every day you're allowed to live.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history? ballers. ha, jk. mother theresa, ghandi, Jesus, the such.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life? no one really.

6. Your favorite musician? many.

7. Your favorite virtue? honesty.

8. Your most marked characteristic?

9. The quality you most like in a man? intelligence.

10. The quality you most like in a woman? intelligence.

11. What do you most value in your friends? trust.

12. What is your principle defect? ability to detach myself too easily.

13. What is your favorite occupation? only have had one (student) so duno yet.

14. What is your dream of happiness? probably being super famous and a crapload of money to buy whatever i want and doing what i love at the same time.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? death of a spouse/child.

16. What would you like to be? psychologist/fashion designer/musician.

17. In what country would you like to live? USofA.

18. What is your favorite color? GREY.!

19. What is your favorite flower? iris.

20. What is your favorite bird? sparrow.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers? kurt vonnegut.

22. Who are your favoite poets? shell silverstein.

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? don't really have one.

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? don't really have one.

25. Who are your favorite composers? don't really have one.

26. Who are your favorite painters? don't really have one.

27. Who are your heroes in real life? my friend Ben.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history? mother theresa.

29. What are your favorite names? emmett, edmund, chrispen, winston, wesley, cornelius, & others.

30. What is it you most dislike? when children get hurt.

31. What historical figures do you most despise? ohhh many.

32. What event in military history do you most admire? none.

33. What reform do you most admire? none in particular.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess? empathy.

35. How would you like to die? quick and very oddly.

36. What is your present state of mind? good.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? biting nails.

38. What is your motto? God has a very funny sense of humor.

[searcher]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
The feeling of complete and utter betrayal

2. Where would you like to live?
Depends

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Depends

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Malcolm X, Davinci, most of the Tudors and Stuarts

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
zilch. Or at least I can't think of any

6. Your favorite musician?
Amy Lee

7. Your favorite virtue?
wisdom

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Well...I'm stubborn as hell...

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Loyalty

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Loyalty

11. What do you most value in your friends?
LOYALTY

12. What is your principle defect?
Not being an F, apparently

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Geologist

14. What is your dream of happiness?
To be decided

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
death of the internet :p

16. What would you like to be?
happy

17. In what country would you like to live?
depends

18. What is your favorite color?
green

19. What is your favorite flower?
rose

20. What is your favorite bird?
seagull

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
erm..

22. Who are your favoite poets?
war poets

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
don't have one

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
ditto to 23

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Chopin, Beethoven

26. Who are your favorite painters?
good question..next question..

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
see question 5

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Deborah

29. What are your favorite names?
Zephyr, Malachi, Aster

30. What is it you most dislike?
Too many people

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
None come to mind right now..

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
The Battle of Britain

33. What reform do you most admire?
...

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
the ability to draw

35. How would you like to die?
depends

36. What is your present state of mind?
not so great

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
forgetfulness

38. What is your motto?
Why not?

[PillowSoup]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being a religious fundamentalist.
2. Where would you like to live?
Somewhere like here but with less people and better weather. If they moved the factories out of the city this place would be perfect.
3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being content with what you have.
4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
FDR
5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Probably my maternal grandmother.
6. Your favorite musician?
Yoshiki Hayashi.
7. Your favorite virtue?
Honesty.
8. Your most marked characteristic?
Bluntness.
9. The quality you most like in a man?
Bluntness.
10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Self-sufficiency.
11. What do you most value in your friends?
That when I need to let loose, they're around.
12. What is your principle defect?
I talk too much.
13. What is your favorite occupation?
Being that weird chemistry teacher who drinks the lab ethanol samples and makes bongs out of lab flasks.
14. What is your dream of happiness?
Owning a large house, two nice cars, having guaranteed healthcare, an enjoyable job, and not being indebted to anyone.
15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Having a lot and losing it, being stuck in a marriage or profession that yuo despise.
16. What would you like to be?
Something different.
17. In what country would you like to live?
Holland, or China if I could get myself to seriously learn the language.
18. What is your favorite color?
B&W
19. What is your favorite flower?
Cannabis Sativa?
20. What is your favorite bird?
Umbrella Cockatoos.
21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
N/A
22. Who are your favoite poets?
N/A
23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
I prefer antiheroes, honestly.
24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
"
25. Who are your favorite composers?
Yoshiki
26. Who are your favorite painters?
N/A
27. Who are your heroes in real life?
N/A
28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Womens' rights reformers.
29. What are your favorite names?
N/A
30. What is it you most dislike?
Overbearing sunlight.
31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Chiang Kai-Shek
32. What event in military history do you most admire?
The Berlin Airlift.
33. What reform do you most admire?
The New Deal.
34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
A reliable attention span.
35. How would you like to die?
Some way rememberable.
36. What is your present state of mind?
Slightly hungover.
37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Answering questions tht I'm not even listening to.
38. What is your motto?
If you're going through hell, keep going.
EDIT: Shortened my post.

[Lantigua]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being pessimistic and fatalistic.

2. Where would you like to live?
Somewhere nice, although I think I already live in such place.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being respected by my wost enemy.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Hamilton, Juan Pablo Duarte, José Martí.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Don't know.

6. Your favorite musician?
Gilberto Santa Rosa

7. Your favorite virtue?
Intelligence

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Always seeking the truth vs. general consensus.

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Respect

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty

12. What is your principle defect?
I take some close people for granted.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Economist

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Being admired by most people.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Not reaching one's goals due to a lack of confidence.

16. What would you like to be?
Rich, really really rich.

17. In what country would you like to live?
Italy, but only for a while to see if my Italian is good enough to live there. LOL!

18. What is your favorite color?
Blue

19. What is your favorite flower?
I have yet to see a flower I didn't like.

20. What is your favorite bird?
Hispaniola Parrot

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Ron Chernow, Tom Gjelten

22. Who are your favoite poets?
Even though I do a little poetry and I have published my own poetry in a book and plan to publish another one, I don't really have a favorite poet.

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Superman

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Don't know.

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Don't know.

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Jaime Colsón, Cándido Bidó, Paul Giudicelli, Gilberto H. Ortega, José Vela Zanetti, Celeste Woss y Gil, Enrique García Godoy, Leopoldo Navarro, Alejandro Bonilla

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Don't know.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Don't know.

29. What are your favorite names?
Aurelia, Eugenio, Raúl, Amelia, Carolina, Ernesto, Zuleyka, Abigail, Miguel

30. What is it you most dislike?
Being ignored.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Adolf Hitler, Jean Pierre Boyer, Sir Francis Drake

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
Don't know.

33. What reform do you most admire?
Don't know.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
Charisma

35. How would you like to die?
How or when I will die is not in my control, thus I don't waste time thinking about things that are beyond my control.

36. What is your present state of mind?
Calm, relaxed, satisfied.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Biting my nails (I've been trying to stop for years).

38. What is your motto?
Live life according to your terms, because in the end its you who is the most affected by it.

[indelicate]

Proust Questionnaire
1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Living only to please others

2. Where would you like to live?
Alone, somewhere isolated

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Not having to worry about pleasing others or working 9 to 5

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Those who defied authority- Joan of Arc, William Wallace, Leonidas

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Joan of Arc, though I do prefer fiction

6. Your favorite musician?
Trent Reznor

7. Your favorite virtue?
Self-Control

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Creativity

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Self-Control

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Self-Control

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Loyalty

12. What is your principle defect?
Extreme Introversion

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Writer

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Not worrying about money, being able to write freely, anonymity

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Marriage, being in debt of any kind

16. What would you like to be?
Self-sufficient

17. In what country would you like to live?
I'm living in Taiwan now, but Italy or Switzerland would be nice

18. What is your favorite color?
Silver

19. What is your favorite flower?
Azalea

20. What is your favorite bird?
Snowy Owl

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Robert Jordan, Joe Haldeman, Tolkien

22. Who are your favorite poets?
Poe

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
I prefer antiheroes and Glorfindel

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Guinevere

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Bach, Mozart, Danny Elfman

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Dali

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Haldeman, Jordan, Heinlein, Tolkien

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Joan of Arc

29. What are your favorite names?
Unusual ones with historical meanings

30. What is it you most dislike?
Smoking, materialism, socializing

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Politicians

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
The battle of Thermopylae, Hannibal's invasion of Italy

33. What reform do you most admire?
?

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
The ability to communicate effectively with others

35. How would you like to die?
Quickly, strangely

36. What is your present state of mind?
Chaotic

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Overindulgence, secrecy, isolation

38. What is your motto?
Don't let the bastards grind you under

[t3hrubikscube]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Having all that you want/need/desire and still being unhappy.... Either that, or working hard to obtain what you want and never getting it.

2. Where would you like to live?
Some days I desire a lavish mansion tucked away in a quiet neighborhood near a big city. Other days I desire a nice little apartment in the middle of a big city.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Being satisfied with what you have.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Cicero.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
I don't really have any.

6. Your favorite musician?
It's hard to say since my music tastes are so varied...

7. Your favorite virtue?
Intelligence.

8. Your most marked characteristic?
Conscientiousness, perhaps...

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence.

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence.

11. What do you most value in your friends?
I value their acceptance. They accept all of my quirks. I also value their senses of humor and varied intelligences.

12. What is your principle defect?
I'm far too self-loathing, and it affects so many other things.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
I aspire to be a computer programmer.

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Being wealthy, successful, and all around content with myself (body and mind) and my life.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
To fail and to not reach important goals.

16. What would you like to be?
I would like to be as intelligent as I can possibly be. I'd like to be incredibly motivated and hard-working. I'd like to be appealing in all aspects. I'd like a brilliant mind and a brilliant body.

17. In what country would you like to live?
I'm happy in the U.S., but if I couldn't live here, I'd like to live in Ireland.

18. What is your favorite color?
Green.

19. What is your favorite flower?
I'm not big on flowers, but I do like pansies.

20. What is your favorite bird?
I don't have one.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Cicero, Stephen King, Ira Levin, Ken Kesey, etc.

22. Who are your favoite poets?
Catullus, Vergil, Ovid, etc.

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
I'm really not big on heroes.

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
See above.

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Holst, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vaughan-Williams, Mozart, Sousa, Rimsky-Korsakov, etc.

26. Who are your favorite painters?
I don't really like art, but I do like Dali.

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
Again, not big on heroes... though I do look up to Bill Gates for a lot of reasons.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
Once again, I'm not into heroes.

29. What are your favorite names?
Catherine, Malachy, Seamus, John, Deirdre, Evan, etc.

30. What is it you most dislike?
Arrogance, failure, etc.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Martin Luther...and, of course, the obvious figures like Hitler, Stalin, etc.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
D-Day Invasion.

33. What reform do you most admire?
I don't really know.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
I'd love be naturally gifted in anything, really, as I feel I lack any natural gifts. However, I'd especially like to be naturally gifted in mathematics/science/logic.

35. How would you like to die?
By my own hand.

36. What is your present state of mind?
I'm stressed, depressed, and hopeless at the moment.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Procrastination and gluttony.

38. What is your motto?
"Live long and prosper"? :P

[uneingenue]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? mental slavery

2. Where would you like to live? siena, italy

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? love

4. Who are your favorite characters in history? winnie the pooh, oscar wilde

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life? ayn rand, kate moss

6. Your favorite musician? alex turner

7. Your favorite virtue? reason

8. Your most marked characteristic? conscientiousness

9. The quality you most like in a man? wit

10. The quality you most like in a woman? charm

11. What do you most value in your friends? loyalty and humor

12. What is your principle defect? i'm prone to brooding

13. What is your favorite occupation? rock star

14. What is your dream of happiness? traveling around the world with my loved ones

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? physical and/or mental illness

16. What would you like to be? happy

17. In what country would you like to live? italy

18. What is your favorite color? black

19. What is your favorite flower? calla lily

20. What is your favorite bird? swallow

21. Who are your favorite prose writers? j.d salinger

22. Who are your favoite poets? nobody, poetry is impossible

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? holden caulfield

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? dagny taggart

25. Who are your favorite composers? vivaldi

26. Who are your favorite painters? picasso, dali, de lempicka

27. Who are your heroes in real life? my mother, always

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history? anyone who fought for what they believed in

29. What are your favorite names? james and michael

30. What is it you most dislike? irrationality

31. What historical figures do you most despise? anyone who tries to oppress others by physical force

32. What event in military history do you most admire? the battle of stalingrad

33. What reform do you most admire? none at the moment

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess? charm

35. How would you like to die? like the sunset

36. What is your present state of mind? it's unclear

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? procrastination and temptation

38. What is your motto? "no excuses"

[Elfrun]

Due to my short attention span I removed a bunch of questions that I went "meh" to.

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being stuck in a situation that you cannot overcome or willingly accept, being helpless.

2. Where would you like to live?
I'd like to travel.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Accomplishment with no regrets (but not due to lack of morals).

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
Ra-Ra-Rasputin, if only for his eventful death and the song it inspired.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Eva Perón, Cleopatra.

6. Your favorite musician?
Kirk Hammett/Matt Bellamy/Flea.

7. Your favorite virtue?
Of the seven heavenly virtues; Patience. Otherwise courage and/or tolerance.

8. Your most marked characteristic?
My NTness.

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Good humour.

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Good humour.

11. What do you most value in your friends?
Non-judgemental acceptance.

12. What is your principle defect?
Pee.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
(successful) Musician, professional extreme sportsman or on location travel researcher.

14. What is your dream of happiness?
Success and balance in work, wealth, relationships, family and health with plenty of play time.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
Mediocrity despite the ability to achieve much.

16. What would you like to be?
Happy, healthy, wealthy and wise.

17. In what country would you like to live?
Any, all.

18. What is your favorite color?
Yellow.

19. What is your favorite flower?
Sunflower.

20. What is your favorite bird?
One that sings prettyfully.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Stephen King.

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Roland The Gunslinger.

30. What is it you most dislike?
Incompetence and bigotry.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Those responsible for genocide and the ones who followed them.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
Admire is a strange word here, the one that has most significance to me is the defeat of allied forces at ANZAC Cove in Gallipoli. I guess I reserve the word 'admiration' for those who stop military action.

33. What reform do you most admire?
The steps towards equality for women and equality for gays.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
High personal motivation without a need of external inspiration.

35. How would you like to die?
I wouldn't.

36. What is your present state of mind?
Calm.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
Procrastination.

38. What is your motto?
Don't have one but I like:
What you think you become.
and
Watch your thoughts. They become words. Watch your words. They become deeds. Watch your deeds. They become habits. Watch your habits. They become character. Character is everything.

[yoginimama]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Slavery, whether official or by custom (e.g. the de facto enslavement of women in history and in many societies and subcultures still today)

2. Where would you like to live? In the heart of a bustling, happy city

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness? Doing what I love while my family members do what they love, then getting together for dinner and talking about it.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history? Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Marie Curie, the Buddha, Patanjali

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life? My mother

6. Your favorite musician? Prince

7. Your favorite virtue? Enlightenment

8. Your most marked characteristic? Toss-up between intellectualism and determination.

9. The quality you most like in a man? If "trustworthiness" and "kindness" could be merged, it'd be that.

10. The quality you most like in a woman? The same

11. What do you most value in your friends? Same

12. What is your principle defect? Lack of assertiveness; withdrawn-ness

13. What is your favorite occupation? Acting

14. What is your dream of happiness? Living in "the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet" (I wish I knew who wrote those words...)

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? Ignorance; deliberate oppression; to be a victim of superstition

16. What would you like to be? Needed

17. In what country would you like to live? Switzerland or Norway

18. What is your favorite color? Blue

19. What is your favorite flower? Pansy

20. What is your favorite bird? The hawk or the owl.

21. Who are your favorite prose writers? Ursula K. LeGuin, Jim Thompson ("This World, Then The Fireworks"), Anais Nin, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Homer, William Inge, Tennessee Williams, I know there are others but I can't think of them right now...

22. Who are your favoite poets? Auden, Dickinson, Larkin, it's a cliche to say Plath but she really was good; de Musset, Desnos, Rimbaud, Baudelaire ("sois sage, o ma douleur..."), Whitman, Ginsberg

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction? I have to admit I don't have one.

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction? Same

25. Who are your favorite composers? Tchaikovsky

26. Who are your favorite painters? Oh good lord. Italian Renaissance: Da Vinci. Northern Renaissance: Grunewald. Mannerist: El Greco. Baroque: Poussin and Lorrain. Class By Himself: Rembrandt. Neoclassical: David. Romantic: Gericault, Delacroix, Friedrich and Turner. Realist: Gotta give it up for Courbet. Impressionist: None, but if you put a gun to my head, Degas. Post-impressionists/expressionists: Modigliani, Schiele, Munch, Ensor. Surrealists: Redon, Redon, Redon! Truly unique. In Their Own Category: Matisse and Picasso, cliched as that may be. Thereafter/Abstract Expressionists: Rothko, Clyfford Still, Jackson Pollock, Miro...aren't you sorry you asked??

27. Who are your heroes in real life? My friends.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history? See above.

29. What are your favorite names?, Ione *and* Iona (so similar but so different), Norna, Aurora, Coral, Roxane

30. What is it you most dislike? Meanness, cruelty, fanaticism.

31. What historical figures do you most despise? Anyone and everyone who promoted dogmatism, fanaticism, violence, cruelty, ignorance, superstition. It's a long list.

32. What event in military history do you most admire? The Christmas truce: To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

33. What reform do you most admire? Emancipation of slaves and women--and there's a lot of overlap between the two categories.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess? Rhythm.

35. How would you like to die? Peacefully.

36. What is your present state of mind? Overworked.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Answering things like this when I'm supposed to be working.

38. What is your motto? Om shanti om

[Merle]

1. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
For me personally, it would be constantly having cold, wet feet... on a more metaphysical level... hmmn dunno right now.

2. Where would you like to live?
Stockholm, or somewhere in the north of Sweden.

3. What is your idea of earthly happiness?
A room of one's own.

4. Who are your favorite characters in history?
William Herschel, Mary Queen of Scots, Thomas Hobbes, Descartes.

5. Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
As in my own life - people I actually know?...I don't have any.
Real life people: Ursula K. Le Guin, Laurie Anderson, Isabelle Huppert.

6. Your favorite musician?
Karin Dreijer Andersson

7. Your favorite virtue?
Veritas

8. Your most marked characteristic?
openness to ideas

9. The quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence

10. The quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence

11. What do you most value in your friends?
It is really terrible that I have to leave this blank...

12. What is your principle defect?
Stubbornness, inability to forgive.

13. What is your favorite occupation?
Reading (while drinking tea)

14. What is your dream of happiness?
A house in a wood, with bookshelves from floor to ceiling, high speed broadband, and a job where all I have to do is write at home by myself all day.

15. What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
going blind.

16. What would you like to be?
A writer/ academic

17. In what country would you like to live?
Sweden

18. What is your favorite color?
Green or purple

19. What is your favorite flower?
Iris

20. What is your favorite bird?
Owl

21. Who are your favorite prose writers?
Henry James, J.G. Ballard, Elfriede Jelinek, Ursula k. Le Guin

22. Who are your favoite poets?
George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, T.S. Eliot, Rainer Maria Rilke, Andrew Marvell, W.H. Auden, Emily Dickinson, Douglas Dunn

23. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Edward Sanders in Ballard's the Crystal World( well, pretty much every Ballard hero - they're kind of all the same character anyway)

24. Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Smilla Jaspersen, Erika Kohut (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.), Isabel Archer and Serena Merle (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

25. Who are your favorite composers?
Franz Schubert, J.S. Bach, Beethoven

26. Who are your favorite painters?
Caravaggio, Hammershøi

27. Who are your heroes in real life?
None.

28. Who are your favorite heroines of history?
I think I've answered this...

29. What are your favorite names?
Aletheia, Merle, Saul, Orin

30. What is it you most dislike?
Sentimentality, and the massive sentimentalisation of almost everything in our culture.

31. What historical figures do you most despise?
Too many to name, many "historical figures" are only remembered because they pushed their weight about with more force and military might than anyone else: wow, great achievement.

32. What event in military history do you most admire?
None.

33. What reform do you most admire?
What?...I don't know what this means. I'm most thankful for any reform that gave women the right to do things like own stuff and vote.

34. What natural gift would you most like to possess?
I really wish I was naturally gifted at learning languages.

35. How would you like to die?
Drowning or freezing to death in snow.

36. What is your present state of mind?
Energised by my new university course and tired from working all week and trying to sort stuff out at the last minute.

37. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
In others: very few, I'm a very intolerant person, as my mother always reminds me.
In myself: all of them.

38. What is your motto?
See Sonnet iv of Sonnets to Orpheus by Rilke