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.

No comments:

Post a Comment

"Woodcraft and Camping" by George "Nessmuk" Sears Part 1 (Ch 1)

 I've got a lot of camping coming up next month, so I thought it'd be fun to do a camping book for a bit. I talked about this a litt...