Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Reflections On Week 49 (Dec 2-Dec 8)

     Link to the readings

Hey, I'm only a month behind now!

Quick review on this week's readings:

Dec 2  Le Morte d'Arthur by Mallory: 3/5 Chivalric tongue lashings!

Dec 3 Buddhist Writings: 3/5 The way they pick the Buddha is questionable, but I learned things and practiced math.

Dec 4 The Aeneid by Virgil: 2/5 It's a lot easier to read the random excerpts of stories I've already read.

Dec 5 Poems by Rossetti: 3/5 She's like a better Emily Dickinson.

Dec 6 Essays by Addison: 0/5 It's like he had a philosophical dialogue with himself. 

Dec 7 Cicero by Plutarch: 2/5 Stop giving me an excerpt of a half of a pair with no context, Eliot.

Dec 8 "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow" by Quincey: 3/5 Just inventing new triple goddesses for fun.

Average: 2.57 Addison ruins it for everyone. 

Overall Thoughts on The Project:

We're getting recent enough that I actually remember some of the readings reasonably well! This week didn't really stand out. The Lives are usually kinda meh, but I blame the formatting. I think the one that stood out to me the most was the Buddhist writings, since I had to sit down and do math while I read it. A literal interaction in your literature can be fun.

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