Sibley Towner

Kilmarnock, United States

What is the one word that describes you? gentle

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
   Sitting in silence with no one but my spouse in a boat or by a pool or on the edge of the Grand Canyon.
2. What is your greatest ultimate fear?
   That we human beings will step our of our niche in the ecosystem and destroy the earth.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
   Procrastination
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
   Surliness
5. Which living person do you most admire?
   My friend and colleague, Prof. Dean McBride.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
   I broke the book-buying habit, so now I'm more or less extravagent-free!
7. What is your current state of mind?
   Troubled over the dysfunction in my family.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
   Chastity
9. On what occasion do you lie?
   On occasions when I tell the preacher it was a good sermon and it wasn't.
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
    my middle age spread.
11. Which living person do you most despise?
    Probably George W. Bush.
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
    Good humor
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
    Twinkle
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
    Somebody else would have to say.
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
    Jane
16. When and where were you happiest?
    Probably the three years I spent as a young high school teacher in Sidon, Lebanon
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
    Painting
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
    Stop procrastinating and get on with it
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
    Being a successful and beloved teacher for 41 years
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
    Myself
21. Where would you most like to live?
    Virgin Islands
22. What is your most treasured possession?
    A Sumerian clay tablet from the 3rd Dynasty of Ur
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
     
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26. What do you most value in your friends?
     
27. Who are your favorite writers?
     
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
     
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
     
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
     
31. What are your favorite names?
     
32. What is it that you most dislike?
     
33. What is your greatest regret?
     
34. How would you like to die?
     
35. What is your motto?