the Proust questionnaire

Well, not so much. Anyhoo....

• What is your favorite virtue? Trustworthiness
• What are your favorite qualities in a man? Independence, consideration, romance.
• What are your favorite qualities in a woman? Independence, forthrightness, tenderness.
• What is your chief characteristic? Tenacity
• What do you appreciate the most in your friends? Presence
• What is your main fault? Forgiveness
• What is your favorite occupation? For myself? Writing.
• What is your idea of happiness? Writing. Loving. Sunshine & tulips & music.
• What is your idea of misery? Snow. Forced solitude. Cooked carrots.
• If you could not be yourself, who would you be? Rhea Durham
• Where would you like to live? In a house in the country with a screened porch with southern exposure.
• What is your favorite color? Gray-blue
• What is your favorite flower? Tulips - the darker the better.
• Who are your favorite prose authors? Christina Bartolomeo, David James Duncan, Alisa Kwitney....
• Who are your favorite poets? Louise Glück, Rumi, Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda....
• Who are your favorite heroes in fiction? Snowed In's Ned, Cupid & Diana's Harry - reluctant heroes.
• Who are your favorite heroines in fiction? Natalie (The Inn at Lake Devine), Delilah (Does She or Doesn't She?), and my namesake Ophelia, from Hamlet.
• Who are your favorite painters and composers? Mark Rothko, Antonio Vivaldi, Toby Keith, & Uncle Kracker.
• Who are your heroes and heroines in real life? I try not to have them.
• What characters in history do you most dislike? I don't really think that way.
• Who are your heroes or heroines in world history? Kosciusko. Audie Murphy. Count Galeazzo Ciano. BMB. Kotzie.
• What is your favorite food and drink? New York Strip, medium, cooked in butter & garlic, with a glass of cold skim milk and thin-sliced homemade bread with butter.
• What is your favorite name? 'Love'
• What do you hate the most? Insincerity
• What is the military event that you most admire? Dunkirk. That without which....
• What is the reform that you most admire? WPA, CCC, and the rest of the alphabet soup that saved the US during the Depression. Thank God for Harry Hopkins!
• What is the natural talent with which you'd most like to be gifted? Patience, or if it has to be literal: a tolerable singing voice.
• How do you wish to die? Quickly, painlessly, and with a minimum of fanfare.
• What is your present state of mind? Scattered
• For what fault do you have the most toleration? Inconstancy
• What is your favorite motto? "Get it all down, girl. Get it all down and write as fast as you can."