Lun Alekseeva
Your favorite virtue
Compassion. Humanity.
The quality that you most admire in a man
Self Respect.
The quality that you most admire in a woman
Self Respect.
What you appreciate the most in your friends
They gave me so much while asking so little.
Your main fault
Too forward with my beliefs.
Your favourite occupation
Naval Pilot. So far my only occupation.
Your dream of happiness
Cool, fresh water on bare skin. Perhaps with warm sun.
Your idea of misery
Party General Secretary Lun Alekseeva. It means I have failed.
If not yourself, what you should like to be
A Cowboy.
Where you would like to live
By the shore of a crystal bay, surrounded by forest and mountains. Maybe a small village to keep the solitude at bay.
Your favorite authors
Strugatsky brothers. Orwell and Huxley as warnings. I have not had much time to become well read.
Your favorite composers
Someone from Gagarin introduced me to Earthlings. Ennio Morricone.
Your favorite artists
This girl I met on a space station. Drew me a picture in my uniform. More alive than the works of dead men. There is too much reverence for dead artistry and not enough focus on the living who create new.
Your favorite fictional heroes
Ivan Denisovich. Not for what he accomplished in Solzhenitsyn's book, but for what he respresented. It was information that toppled the Soviet government, and this began with Denisovich' and his human endurance and a window into the truth of the Soviet government.
Your heroes in real life
Anyone who has the courage to stand up and work and try to make a better world, even if they know they will never live in it. Those who stand against fascism and authoritarianism wherver it appears.
What you hate most of all
Arrogance. The belief that because you got lucky in life, it gives you a blank card to treat those less fortunate like dog shit. Those who desire power for power's sake, those parasites who cloak themselves in the great ideals of man, while simultaneously rotting them from the inside. The fascists who call themselves anti-fascists.
Historical figures that you despise the most
Stalin and Senator Joe McCarthy can dance together in hell, with Mao in to complete the threesome.
How you wish to die?
In front of the firing squad. Then I will know I have not betrayed my ideals.
Your present state of mind
Bemused at what passes for common sense here. These people are simultaneously frustrating, exciting, dynamic and funny. But fundamentally decent.
Faults for which you have the most toleration
I can forgive any honestly held belief, but not self-serving justifications.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
Your favorite virtue
Compassion. Humanity.
The quality that you most admire in a man
Self Respect.
The quality that you most admire in a woman
Self Respect.
What you appreciate the most in your friends
They gave me so much while asking so little.
Your main fault
Too forward with my beliefs.
Your favourite occupation
Naval Pilot. So far my only occupation.
Your dream of happiness
Cool, fresh water on bare skin. Perhaps with warm sun.
Your idea of misery
Party General Secretary Lun Alekseeva. It means I have failed.
If not yourself, what you should like to be
A Cowboy.
Where you would like to live
By the shore of a crystal bay, surrounded by forest and mountains. Maybe a small village to keep the solitude at bay.
Your favorite authors
Strugatsky brothers. Orwell and Huxley as warnings. I have not had much time to become well read.
Your favorite composers
Someone from Gagarin introduced me to Earthlings. Ennio Morricone.
Your favorite artists
This girl I met on a space station. Drew me a picture in my uniform. More alive than the works of dead men. There is too much reverence for dead artistry and not enough focus on the living who create new.
Your favorite fictional heroes
Ivan Denisovich. Not for what he accomplished in Solzhenitsyn's book, but for what he respresented. It was information that toppled the Soviet government, and this began with Denisovich' and his human endurance and a window into the truth of the Soviet government.
Your heroes in real life
Anyone who has the courage to stand up and work and try to make a better world, even if they know they will never live in it. Those who stand against fascism and authoritarianism wherver it appears.
What you hate most of all
Arrogance. The belief that because you got lucky in life, it gives you a blank card to treat those less fortunate like dog shit. Those who desire power for power's sake, those parasites who cloak themselves in the great ideals of man, while simultaneously rotting them from the inside. The fascists who call themselves anti-fascists.
Historical figures that you despise the most
Stalin and Senator Joe McCarthy can dance together in hell, with Mao in to complete the threesome.
How you wish to die?
In front of the firing squad. Then I will know I have not betrayed my ideals.
Your present state of mind
Bemused at what passes for common sense here. These people are simultaneously frustrating, exciting, dynamic and funny. But fundamentally decent.
Faults for which you have the most toleration
I can forgive any honestly held belief, but not self-serving justifications.
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?