Busy busy week
Quick review on this week's readings:
May 6 Cellini's Autobiography: 1/5 There's a minimum level of "middle school anime power fantasy" in the good sections of Cellini's autobiography. This one isn't there, and so it's skippable.
May 7 Assorted Poems by Browning: 3/5 Decent enough. Very Poe.
May 8 The School for Scandal by Brinsley: 3/5 Stock plot, but funny.
May 9 Letters On The Aesthetical Education Of Man by Schiller: 3/5 Some valuable (if underdeveloped) commentary on making philosophy and education relevant to the world that actually exists, not what we imagine, wish, or remember.
May 10 The Discovery of Guiana by Raleigh: 1/5 Probably the weakest of the travelogues we've read so far. Definitely not worth a day on the reading list, and probably not in the collection as a whole (maybe other sections are better).
May 11 Duchess of Malfi by Webster: 2/5 Reading plays is hard. Seemed funny
May 12 Poems by Rossetti: 2/5 Generic poems about love and beauty.
Weekly Average: 2.14 A lot of the readings this week fell into a kind of "generic, but okay" trap. It's sometimes hard to tell with older works if they were generic at the time, or a bit more creative.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
When you have a kind of meh week followed by a very busy week, you don't get great reflection. I don't think there was much in this week that really pushed me, thought wise. I'll probably track down and watch both plays, and Schiller's essay exists in an interesting point right on the divide between what I'd personally define as "good" (concrete and realistic) and "bad" (overly hypothetical and pointless) philosophy in a way that's illustrative.
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