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Celebrate Creativity

This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.

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31:10

Fate, Illness, or Deception?

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2025/08/23

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity – Episode 444 - Fate, illness, or Deception? This is the first podcast episode in a three part series dealing with a fascinating individual - the Russian writer Fydor Dostoevsky and his literary treatment of seizure disorders. His works are rich with recurring themes such as morality, free will, nihilism, faith, and the nature of good and evil. Dostoevsky himself suffered from epilepsy - so it could be argued that his reaction to the cond...

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29:35

Was He Drunk?

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2025/08/22

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 442 Was He Drunk? I should hope that after you have listened to the preceding episode, the name of Dr. John Robertson should be familiar to you. In case it is not, Dr. John Robertson was a neurologist and an avid collector of Poe's works who, in his 1921 study "Edgar A. Poe: A Study," argued that Poe suffered from a form of epilepsy, specifically complex partial seizures. He contended that these seizures, rather than ...

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29:21

Did Poe Have Epilepsy?

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2025/08/21

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity Episode 441 - Did Poe Have Epilepsy? As many of you know, I used to work at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond Virginia - my favorite room in the entire museum, and one of my favorite places in the entire world, is the Virginia Poe room name for the mother of Edgar Allan Poe. Now this building contains an excellent collection of the writers works - original editions of everything from Hans Pfall - for obvious reasons, the museum ...

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24:16

Crossing the Symbol

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2025/08/20

Send us a text -Welcome to is Celebrate Creativity for episode 440 Crossing the Symbol -the second part of a look into Lord Byron. Making swimming even more difficult historically and even today it's a vital strategic waterway which means it was and still is a busy maritime passageway Now if you will excuse me, I wanna take a little aside and delve into the Hellespont - and hopefully in a few minutes you will understand it's importance to Lord Byron, his thinking, and where I'm trying...

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27:08

An Uneasy Mind

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2025/08/19

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 439 - An Uneasy Mind Let me start with an example of my creative - if if that is what you wanna call it - approach to Gemini - I figured out what I wanted to say, my situation, and give Gemini a place to start with. I knew that Gustav Flaubert and Lord Byron lived approximately at the same time, but I was not exactly sure which came first chronologically. So I looked them up Gemini and got Lord Byron was Born: Januar...

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25:12

Epilepsy and Famous Writers

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2025/08/18

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 437 - Epilepsy and Famous Writers Today, Celebrate Creativity is beginning a new series, one that peels back the layers on a topic rarely discussed in the hallowed halls of literature. We're going to talk about famous writers who lived with epilepsy. Now I did not just randomly choose the topic of creativity and epilepsy. You see, as some of you may know, my family and I went to Washington DC when I was in the eighth grade, and...

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26:56

Poe’s Creativity - Part Two

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2025/08/17

Send us a text Welcome to celebrate creativity - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 437 - the Second of a two part series - Poe’s Creativity - Part Two Mr. Poe - you know I I'm very curious about your writing - and the effects you attempted to generate - Would you say that you were a stylist? Indeed, Mr. Bartley, I would say that I am a stylist, and in the most deliberate and uncompromising sense of the word. Style, to me, is not a mere flourish or a decorative element to b...

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30:38

Poe’s Creativity - Part One

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2025/08/17

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 436 - the first of a two part series - Poe’s Creativity - Part One First I have a confession to make - her somehow got the last two audio files, their titles, and numbers mixed up - it's very easy to do - I will definitely be sure to do all that I can to be sure that this doesn't happen again - and I hope I'm now back on track with this episode. I apologize for any inconvenience. Now, this a...

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26:19

Walt's Cloak

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2025/08/16

Send us a text Welcome to celebrate creativity. My name is George Bartley, and this is episode 435 - Walt’s Cloak It seems that the best way to get useful information from an ai is by using clear and thorough prompts. In other words, the best way to get an answer that is useful is to spend time thinking how to communicate clearly what you want to say - possibly writing down a list of the questions you want to ask - because it is easy to get off-topic. Sometimes, that might requir...

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20:52

A Fierce Undeniable Attraction

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2025/08/15

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate. Creativity - This is Episode 434 - A Fierce Undeniable Attraction Walt Whitman’s words about the female form is the subject of the first section of this episode. Section 4 This is the female form, A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot, It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction, I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it, Books, art, religion, time, the visible and s...

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27:50

Cataloging the Sensual

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2025/08/14

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 433 - Cataloging the Sensual I left off talking about Whitman's use of free verse, and now I'd like to say a little bit more. about his technique of cataloging - away in which you might say that he glorified the common place. In his catalogues, such as the one in "I Hear America Singing," Whitman elevates the ordinary work of everyday people into something monumental. He lists the "mechanic," the "carpenter," the "mason," the "boatman,...

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27:13

Flowing and Swelling

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2025/08/13

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - My name is George Bartley and this is episode 432 - Flowing and Swelling This episode is the second in a series of podcast episodes about Walt Whitman’s unique approach to free verse. Now a good example of Walt Whitman's free verse - one that celebrates the messy, vibrant, and expansive reality of the modern world is from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." In this poem, he captures the sensory experience of a daily commute, blending the sublime with ...

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25:17

A Patient Spider

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2025/08/12

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 431 - A Patient Spider From a week of Shakespeare to a series of podcast episodes about Walt Whitman - not as big jump as you might think. You see, Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare are two of the most influential poets in the English language, and while they lived in different eras and had vastly different styles, they share some key commonalities. Both poets are renowned for their profound impact on literature, and their works are consi...

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28:51

Yesterday and Tomorrow

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2025/08/11

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 431 - Yesterday and Tomorrow I mentioned that it was necessary to have a list of name signs when signing a play by William Shakespeare in an earlier podcast episode. And I want to say a final note about that here. What I always did when interpreting a play at the black fires Playhouse, I printed a sheet on my computer with ready set go - I doubt that anybody remembers that - a page making program where I could have eight or...

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25:52

Playing with Language

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2025/08/10

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity Episode 429 Playing with Language Snce the auditory characteristics of a Shakespearean play (such as puns and meter) are outside the frame of reference of a Deaf audience, puns can be shown in “plays on signs,” instead of “plays on words.” Meter can be communicated though smooth and regular signs – the jerky interpreter who is searching for words cannot convey the inner stresses and beats in a line of text. Instead of “rhythm i...

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29:22

How to Say No

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2025/08/10

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 429 _ How to Say No Name Signs as Clarifiers: Which Side Is He On? One common practice when interpreting a play is for t when mythological references are used the interpreter needs well needs to be able to be creative yes be creative add to avoid finger spelling and therefore breaking the meter the interpreter excuse me just a second here he interpreter to come up with a sign to signify a character - this is much faster - much faster ...

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32:41

Yesterday and Tomorrow

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2025/08/08

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 427 - Yesterday and Tomorrow Let's get back to a brief look at American Sign Language - remember American Sign Language or ASL is the natural language of the deaf. It might be a good idea to review the five parameters of American Sign Language. Asl They are Location: Where on the body the sign is made. Movement: The way the sign moves. Palm Orientation: Which way the hand is facing. Non-Manual Markers: Facial expressio...

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29:47

Hear the Hungry Lion!

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2025/08/08

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Creativity - Episode 427 - Hear the Hungry Lion When we left the previous episode I was working with Gemini to make my Master thesis about interpreting Shakespeare's place for the deaf more understandable. And Gemini said - Okay, here's the next section, revised for a seventh-grade reading level. I've broken down the longer paragraphs and used simpler language to explain the concepts of ASL grammar and the different styles of interpreting. &nb...

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31:09

Signing Shakespeare

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2025/08/07

Send us a text Welcome to celebrate creativity - episode 426 - Signing Shakespeare In graduate school, I did a master thesis called Signing Shakespeare regarding interpreting the works of Shakespeare and Performance into American Sign Language for the deaf. Now the problem is that the language of the paper was certainly appropriate for graduate School, but way over the head of the normal, average person - in other words the language was far too high falutin and made up of words almost ...

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25:55

From Stratford to London

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2025/08/06

Send us a text Welcome back to celebrate creativity - Episode 425 - From Stratford to London. Today, we're going on a very special Elizabethan journey, not into one of Shakespeare's plays, but into the writer’s very own life - a life that was surprisingly simple. Who was the man who created all these amazing characters and stories? Where did he come from? And then we will look at his writings from using a fascinating form of communication. But first I want to tell you - very briefly - how I ...

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