Thursday, January 9, 2025

Reflections on Week 51 (Dec 16-22)

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Quick review on this week's readings:

Dec 16  On The Sublime and Beautiful by Burke: 2/5 I didn't care for this section, but the rest of the essay sound interesting..

Dec 17 The Confessions of St. Augustine: 1/5 Wasn't there a non-awful Christian tradition Eliot could've pulled readings from?

Dec 18 Some Thoughts Concerning Education by Locke: 2/5 How to learn Latin (which you don't need) without forgetting English (which you do).

Dec 19 Samson Agonistes by Milton: 1/5 God is extra terrible this week.

Dec 20 An Account of Egypt by Herodotus: 3/5 Child abuse and engineering. 

Dec 21 The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan: 2/5 Literature's strangest wills.

Dec 22 "What is a Classic?" by Saint-Beuve: 3/5 A pretty good definition of a classic.

Average: 2 I don't think there's going to be any weeks above a two this whole year.

Overall Thoughts on The Project:

I've read that sublimity (real word, didn't expect that) is often contrasted with religion, which makes it kind of interesting to see the Burke excerpt paired with St. Augustine, Milton, and Bunyan here this week. Religion says things are overwhelming, therefore there must be a god. Sublimity says things are overwhelming... wow! I don't know that that's accurate (having only read this chunk and I think one other excerpt), but that's the impression I've gotten. Interested in learning more, which is the point of this project.

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