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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