Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
intellect
[in-tl-ekt]noun 1. the power or faculty of the mind by which one knows or understands, as distinguished from that by which one feels and that by which one wills; the understanding; the faculty of thinking and acquiring knowledge (from dictionary.com)
(Am I the only one who reads this actual dictionary definition and thinks, “holy shit! clarks, rogers and scotts! Who told them about the Doctrine?!”
Christine mentioned earlier in the week that she had exhausted her supply of pre-written Posts and wondered, “…I have now come to the end of my pre-written posts. It’s gonna get rocky up at the coop!” Later in the week, in an IM exchange, she mentioned that, “I actually have the dictionary out (paper kind, because tech version isn’t helpful in this case) trying to find some inspiration.” Naturally, I saw what a great idea this was and replied, ‘what a great idea! flip the pages and point to a word at random… Topics based on this method are surely just as valid as are found in some of the Posts in the A-2-Knee April Blog Challenge! (titles such as, ‘Kittens and Cats…the Untold Story‘ or ‘Movies and Motion Pictures….is Hollywood trying to trick us?’)
In any event, I took my own advice last night and went looking for a hardcopy dictionary…. and looked and looked. The best I could come up with was an old German to English Dictionary. It had those little tab things, for each letter? (These were clearly the pre-google ‘search box’ of the hardcopy era). I found the ‘I’ tab, and flipping through the pages without looking, stuck my finger on the page at random and got…. intellect.
Once again, the world writes my Post.
btw: I saw someone on ‘the Facebook’ write on ‘invisibility’ and I thought, ‘damn! I wish I had thought of that first.’ Invisibility is a quality that clarks possess and there are times when it is such a heightened state that you would swear that we are, in fact, invisible. Ask any clark. We are always half in the social underbrush in terms of presence, but there are days when we wake up and we are surprised at how un-noticeable a person can be in ‘real’ life.
I laughed*. Because, as a people, we are accustomed to the synchronistic and the odd, random coincidence.
*clarks tend to laugh too much. Not so much inappropriately, rather we laugh instead of accepting the emotional gravity of a situation. We laugh to show that we are not too…. involved, invested, that we’re ok if it turns out badly, hedging our bets, emotionalistically speaking and we laugh because…”hey we’re laughing so how can this be?…and besides, how can you not accept a person who laughs?
About clarkscottroger
Frist
Frist! (no…yeah..it’s like 12 hours later… )
Frist nonetheless
Aruba conversation while I was standing at the outside edge of a group of people in the pool (with drinks): Large man speaking, “it’s like I’m invisible. What about this 300 pound body is invisible?” And I laughed (to myself) and thought, now, he’s a Clark”.
hahahahaha!
lol
I like the dictionary idea… I have been googling things like “unusual words beginning with I” or “Topics starting with B.” I actually succumbed to the siren song of a repost today…just didnt have it together enough.
I liked the repost (it was a good post in the first place, so of course it’s a good repost)….I think I will take that as license ….just don’t know where I can find a Doctrine Post with the letter J in the title.
There are times when a book is what is needed. The dictionary did not fail you! :-)
yeah,, cool, huh?
I can’t believe you don’t have a dictionary in your house. Don’t know why, but it surprises me. Glad you found some inspiration. And yes, that definition sounds eerily similar…
We used to, but back in the pre-interenet Ola decided to add book to her diet (as a young puppy) and I believe she totally chewed this very huge Websters’ (hardcover too…. sort of a rack of words)
I have five stages of giggle-itis. Sometimes I laugh so much at stage V that my throat is sore and I spend the next few hours clearing it. :D
hey! call in (if you are in range with your electrical telephone)!
Uh oh, I’m awfully Clarky by the laughing definition.
all depends… do you maintain eye contact when laughing?