Sunday, January 5, 2025

Reflections on Week 44 (Oct 28-Nov 3)

Link to the readings

Snow day tomorrow! We haven't had one of those in like half a decade.

Quick review on this week's readings:

Oct 28: "Some Thoughts on Education" by Locke: 3/5 Kids learn best via Boggle gambling.

Oct 29: Poems by Keats: 2/5 Nightingales, man.

Oct 30: "Science of Geology" by Lyell: 1/5 Not wrong, just not well written.

Oct 31: BUUUURNNNNSSSSS: 0/5 IT'S OVER!

Nov 1: The Tempest by Shakespeare: 2/5 I kinda want to go all the way down to one for this one, since there are more deserving Shakespeares.

Nov 2: The Divine Comedy by Dante: 3/5 Artistic censorship. 

Nov 3: Pliny's Letters: 3/5 Just a little torture to be safe!

Average: 2 The end of the "Burns Curve"

Overall Thoughts on The Project:

I cannot express how happy I will be to never have to read Burns again. I'm proud that I actually read (admittedly, kinda skimmed sometimes) every Burns day. I think that's the biggest challenge of this whole project. He's just so terrible. And barely even in English.

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I never realized how little of Pride and Prejudice is actually about Darcy and Elizabeth's relationship.

 Also, listening to audio books isn't reading. That doesn't make it bad, it's just its own thing.