Timothy David Dorans
26, fashion model, thinker, Canada
"Ever tried, ever failed. No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better".
Samuel Beckett
To what faults do you feel most indulgent? Judging other people.
What is your idea of earthly happiness? A reciprocated love in the eyes of a lover or friend.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? How we treat the elderly and the poor makes me want to vomit.
Who are your favorite character in history? Filippo Brunelleschi.
Who are your favorite heroines/heroes in real life? The kind and the selfless.
Your favorite painter? Hieronymus Bosch.
Your favorite musician? Impossible to answer.
The quality you most admire in a man? Self-discipline and patients.
The quality you most admire in a woman? Intelligence and appreciation of the arts.
Who would you have liked to be? I don't know. I've never had a role model.
Your most marked characteristic? My ability to listen to people.
How do you like to spend your free time? With friends or reading.
What do you most value in your friends? Their support and acceptance.
What is your principle defect? Depression or a self-defeating nature.
Who are your favorite writers? Hermann Hesse.
What is it you most dislike? Driving a car in traffic.
What thing you learned the hardest way? To not expect the world from myself.
What event in history do you most admire? I don't know. The non-violent revolution of India in 1930. The violent revolutions of Ernesto Guevara.
What natural gift would you most like to possess? To draw.
What habit or characteristic you picked up during your early years? Defiance.
What books or movies had a very strong impact on you? "Narcissus and Goldmund", "Siddhartha", "Steppenwolf", "Catch-22", "Notes from the Underground".
How do you think, what is the biggest achievement of our time? The creating a single celled organism and modern neurology show that science is literally around the corner from vast improvements in the way humans live, treat disease and deal with poverty.
What person or character can you call the role model or example for your generation? I don't think there is one.
What is your present state of mind? Happy-depressed. Listening to Jean Sibelius' Symphony no. 5 (the finale).
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