Forty Hours of Homework

Read these:
The Faerie Queene, Mutabilitie Cantos, Spenser
Remembrance of Things Past, Overture, Proust
"Bezhin Lea" from Sketches from a Hunter's Album, Turgenev
Peer Gynt, Ibsen
Orlando, Chapter One, Woolf
"Man and Dog", Mann
"The Piazza", Melville
"The Snowstorm", Tolstoy
"A Christmas Carol", Dickens
"The Witch of Atlas", Shelley

Hear these:
Pachelbel's Canon
Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, orchestral highlights by Solti
Albinoni's Adagio
Vivaldi's Guitar Concerto in G
Ashes to Ashes, David Bowie
Love Fool, The Cardigans
Swan Lake, Finale, Tchaikovsky
Starting Over, John Lennon
Kiss of Fire, Louis Armstrong
Call Me, Blondie

Watch these:
Great Expectations (1946)
Modern Times
Andrei Rublev
L'Avventura
Mississippi Mermaid
Heavenly Creatures
Fanny and Alexander
Schindler's List
The Straight Story
eXistenZ

Feel this:
La Pieta, Michelangelo

Then tell me what you think.