I'm embarrassed to say, I didn't get through much of the list last week. Yes, Yes, I read some. Sure, Sure, I have excuses and could enumerate a few. However, as I tell my students, I need to arrange myself better and be more committed. Nevertheless, reading deep works is a little difficult, when you can't keep your head of the pillow. Excuses, Excuses! Anyway, I'm going to pretend last week was a warm up and move along with the schedule again. I also intend to catch up with the second assignment.
- Genesis 1-3
- “Of Truth” by Francis Bacon (Vol. 10, pp. 346-347)
- “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg” by Mark Twain (Vol. 2, pp. 346-386)
- The English Bill of Rights (1689) (Vol. 6, pp. 409-411)
- “My First Play” by Charles Lamb (Vol. 5, pp. 300-303)
- “The March to the Sea” by Xenophon (Vol. 6, pp. 196-222; Book IV of The Persian Expedition)
- “The Sacred Beetle” by Jean-Henri Fabre (Vol. 8, pp. 105-119; pp. 1-36 of The Sacred Beetle and Others)
- Since the study of Western Culture isn't complete without the study of visual and auditory arts, I also plan to restudy The Story of Art by Gombrich and The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers.
For those who are more on top of things and more committed than me, this is the week's readings.
- Genesis 4-6
- “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway (Vol. 2, pp. 169-177)
- “Letter to Horace Greeley” by Abraham Lincoln (Vol. 6, pp. 756-757)
- “The Making of Americans” by Jean de Crèvecouer (Vol. 6, pp. 546-559; excerpted from Letters From an American Farmer; stop reading at the paragraph which ends, “Thus Europeans become Americans.”)
- “Of Persons One Would Wish to Have Seen” by William Hazlitt (Vol. 5, pp. 284-295)
- “Michael Faraday” by John Tyndall (Vol. 8, pp. 8-28; Chapters 1-3 of Faraday as a Discoverer)
- The Enchiridion by Epictetus (Vol. 10, pp. 236-254)
- Three pages each The Story of Art by Gombrich and The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers.
