Proust Questionnaire: Ismael Santos's answers

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On Mon, 14 Jul 14 00:19:47 UTC Ismael Santos (20) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Lobotomized from how you feel, confined to a menial job for eternity
Where would you like to live?: In a cave far away from civilization
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: Good books, food, music, friends and family and all loves, and living under a nice tree
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Self-obsessed words and acts
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Raoul Duke
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Napoleon, Winston Churchill, Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Any woman who's surviving, and thriving, in this odd world
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Sylvia Plath in Bell Jar
Your favorite painter?: Van Gogh
Your favorite musician?: Bob Dylan
The quality you most admire in a man?: Honesty
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Humor, Self-awareness, intelligence
Your favorite virtue?: Being decent, I suppose
Your favorite occupation?: Reading and writing poetry
Who would you have liked to be?: Hmm, being Walt Whitman sounds amazing, to say the least
Your most marked characteristic?: Incessant reckless impulsivity in spewing out whatever I want to say
What do you most value in your friends?: Sense of honesty and openness
What is your principle defect?: Cowardly at best, egomaniac and self-obsessed at worst
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Being born and raised anywhere else, other than Miami
What would you like to be?: The best version of myself, with confidence enough in his work to make it through
What is your favorite color?: Green as a tree leaf
What is your favorite flower?: All flowers work for me
What is your favorite bird?: Peacock
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Vladimir Nabokov and Elmore Leonard
Who are your favorite poets?: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Spicer
Who are your heroes in real life?: My dad
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cardona, my mom Rosa, Maya Angelou
What are your favorite names?: My dog's name, Shena, and one of my friend's names, Janeixis
What is it you most dislike?: Braggadocio, and egomania
What historical figures do you most despise?: George Bush, Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: Not really my own or any event, but a military veteran, at 80 or so, receiving his PHD at FIU was great
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Faster tongue, sturdier bones
How would you like to die?: As sleep-filled as possible
What is your present state of mind?: Tired with mental fogs, in need of a desperate shower
What is your motto?: C'est la vie

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