What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Loneliness, isolation and/or alienation: as often experienced when living in surburbia.
Where would you like to live?
San Fran, Beijing, Tokyo.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?
Too difficult of a question to answer. Many things make me happy. All of them sound corny, and the list is always growing.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
The deadly sins of greed and gluttony.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
The Tibetan Monk in Journey to the West: patient to a fault, motivated by good intentions, courageous, all while being entirely spiritual.
Who are your favorite characters in history?
Hmm, I'd like to rewrite this question, if I might: Who is my least favorite character in history?
E.L. Bernays--the father of public relations, a dastardly man who founded an industry based on manipulation and dark tactics of persuasion.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
Frida Kahlo: amazing artist, lived without apologizing.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
Hmmm, drawing a blank here. Could that be because the canon is based on a patriarchal system??? (wink)
Your favorite painter?
I could answer Frida Kahlo, but that would be too easy, wouldn't it? Let's say, instead, John Singer Sargent, who had an uncanny talent for combining realism with a touch of impressionism.
Your favorite musician?
Oh, gosh, I don't know. There's too many to choose from. Ummm, I can't do it!
The quality you most admire in a man?
The combination of two qualities: uninhibitedness and kindness.
The quality you most admire in a woman?
Same--it's genderless.
Your favorite virtue?
Honesty (from the perspective of Kant). Difficult in practice, interesting in theory.
Your favorite occupation?
Hmmm, perplexing question. My favorite as in, favorite thing I've done in my life, or the one that I might not have ever done but has captured my imagination somehow? I'll answer the latter: farmer.
Who would you have liked to be?
Foucault.
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