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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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.