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What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

feeling shame


Where would you like to live?

Paris


What is your idea of earthly happiness?

hiking in Central Italy


To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

faults due to generosity


Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?

Julien Sorel
Zeno Cosini (La coscienza di Zeno)


Who are your favorite characters in history?

Socrates
Montaigne


Who are your favorite heroines in real life?

a few witches


Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?

Natascia Rostova (War and Peace)
la Sanseverina (La Chartreuse de Parme)


Your favorite painter?

Piero della Francesca


Your favorite musician?

Mozart



The quality you most admire in a man?

generosity


The quality you most admire in a woman?

generosity


Your favorite virtue?

generosity


Your favorite occupation?

walking


Who would you have liked to be?

myself (with some corrections)

Poem 22

To hear a gong above the sound of wheels
Is impossible. He twitches, a sudden birdlike
Distancing from the city. Hammers of horn
Fall on keys, resonate, are hushed.

From the ocean come orchestras,
To the ocean oil and ash. And from the lip
Of the volcano a faint rumble--then silence.