I was going to say I was in the home stretch, but I have to make it to next week to hit two thirds of the way through the year.
Quick review on this week's readings:
Aug 19 Journey to Diverse Places by Paré: 3/5 16th century white noise machine!
Aug 20 Paradise Lost by Milton: 1/5 It's still bad!
Aug 21 Confessions of St. Augustine: 1/5 Fundamentalist Christianity is not compatible with a liberal education, no matter how much fundamentalist Christians advocate for it!
Aug 22 Two Years Before the Mast by Dana: 3/5 Weird, but mostly inciteful, sailor expressions!
Aug 23 From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Burke: 2/5 Less the origin of beauty, and more what isn't beauty.
Aug 24 Pliny the Elder’s Letters by Luther: 3/5 First person disaster account is pretty cool.
Aug 25 "The Tides" by Kelvin: 3/5 I now understand how tides work.
Average: 2.29 An aggressively average back half of the week.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
: characterized by the skill and efficiency typical of a good workman
also : competent and skillful but not outstanding or original
Workmanlike is how I'd describe about half the selections this week. And that's fine. Yeah, it's great to read some Keats or something, but I'd rather a week with four good selections and three okay ones than one great one and six stinkers.
I learned several interesting things this week, and mostly avoided having to slog through anything.
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