Thursday, January 9, 2025

Reflections on Week 50 (Dec 9-15)

      Link to the readings

Final month!

Quick review on this week's readings:

Dec 9  The Fugitive Slave Law: 3/5 Well that's shitty.

Dec 10 The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini: 2/5 He's a slightly less funny edgelord in this one.

Dec 11 Alcibiades by Plutarch: 3/5 Probably the strangest Lives excerpt of the year.

Dec 12 Poems by Browning: 1/5 So far past my bad poem quota for the year.

Dec 13 Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage... by Pretty: 3/5 It's where you bend your Ell! 

Dec 13 Poems by Plutarch: 1/5 Please stop.

Dec 14 The Odyssey by Homer: 3/5 Vampire Ghosts!

Average: 2.29 Ugh, poetry.

Overall Thoughts on The Project:

If all the poetry hadn't bombed, I was thinking about rereading Cellini to see if I could justify moving it up to a three. But then there was more bad/generic poetry, so it didn't matter. I think if your poetry involves telling me something is beautiful you should just stop, since it's already been done a few million times poorly, and you're probably not going to do any better.

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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.