Avalon Mentors

Avalon Mentors

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Avalon Mentors episodes

  • Ep 009 Twelfth Night (and the Scholastic Debate)

    This is a novel way to read the play - through the lens of the Scholastic Debate of the 13th century.  Inspired by the Shakespeare 2020 project initiated by Ian Doescher (of Shakespeare Star Wars fame) I invite you to see this great work as influenced by the struggle between Nominalism and Realism.

    Shakespeare 2020: https://iandoescher.com/shakespeare/
    Nominalism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nominalism-metaphysics/
    Realism: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/realism/
    Twelfth Night: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/twelfth_night/full.html

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    33 min
  • Ep007 The Life You Save

    Reflections on Flannery O'Connor's great short story, "The Life You Save May Be Your Own."

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    16 min
  • Ep004 The Three Animals

    Each episode of SCRIBBLEBIBBLE attempts to bring to bear the great works of human culture from the past upon the dilemma of living in the present age.  

    "Dorothy Sayers, in her excellent book, The Mind of the Maker, divides creative activity into three stages: the idea, the implementation, and the interaction. A book, then, or a computer, or a program comes into existence first as an ideal construct, built outside time and space, but complete in the mind of the author. It is realized in time and space, by pen, ink, and paper, or by wire, silicon, and ferrite. The creation is complete when someone reads the book, uses the computer, or runs the program, thereby interacting with the mind of the maker." -  The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering.   Frederick P. Brooks, jr.
    Read  Dorothy L. Sayers "The Mind of the Maker" 
    Quick review of her text here.
    More on Contrapposto

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    25 min
  • Ep003 The Power of Words

    Each episode of SCRIBBLEBIBBLE attempts to bring to bear the great works of human culture from the past upon the dilemma of living in the present age. 

    William Carlos Williams "Red Wheelbarrow"
    Dorothy  Sayers "The Mind of the Maker"
    Charles Williams

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    18 min
  • Dante: The Inferno - Canto 2

    Canto 2 of Dante's Divine Comedy.

    Read along at this link: Digital Dante

    Music by Aitua; "The Grey Forest IV"

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    11 min
  • Dante: The Inferno - Canto I

    The opening canto of Dante's Divine Comedy.

    Read along at this link: Digital Dante

    Music by Aitua; "The Grey Forest IV"

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    10 min

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