It's good to start the new year by reflecting on the last one.
Quick review on this week's readings:
Sep 9 "Nature" by Emerson: 1/5 Nature good, transcendentalist hipsters bad.
Sep 10 Poems by Holmes: 3/5 More fightin' ship poems, please!
Sep 11 Wealth of Nations by Smith: 4/5 WoN is still good, and Adam Smith would still get called a socialist on Newsmax if they knew how to read him.
Sep 12 Poems by Browning: 1/5 These are flirting with a zero. No more psycho love poems, please.
Sep 13 Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan: 1/5 PP has the most inconsistent score range in T5FSOB.
Sep 14 The Divine Comedy by Dante: 2/5 I look forward to reading this not chunked.
Sep 15 George Washington's Farewell Address: 3/5 George Washington was (basically) a Federalist.
Average: 2.14 I'm going to start plugging these into a spreadsheet.
Overall Thoughts on The Project:
This far into the year, it's interesting to see the distinction between pieces that are good, and pieces that are good when semi-randomly chunked. I enjoy The Divine Comedy, but I'm really tired of reading ten pages of Paradiso then twelve of Inferno then a different bit of Paradiso and then shuffling to Purgatorio, because why not?
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