Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Tough one. At least it’s striking me so, here at 12:30 am Thursday the 27th, as I sit at my computer, typing, near-automatically with similar ambition, (to the automatic writers of old), hoping against hope that the very motion of the pen (or keyboard), will be mother (or father) to art. Maybe they were on to something.
‘The Project that was projected was to project as much of the project to as many of the people comprising the Project.
To Project, speaking from a faux psychoanalytic perspective, is, in part, to attribute (project) onto to people, places and things in ones’ world, the attributes and characteristic that one attributes to oneself but would really rather not accept.’
Luckily this is only this week’s Six Sentence Challenge and all I have to do is finish and submit and then go one with life, which has enough difficulties in it without having to contend with zoe’s latest deviously simply word prompt.
Man! this is a tough one…
Awake, thank god that night is over!
Tossed and turned all night, chased by worry and hobbled by loss of confidence, surely, (so spoke the voices of the night), there is no way to get through this next set of challenges.
Coffee to stimulate the mind, producing the illusion (maybe even the allusion) of being capable of efficient and effective action.
The caffeine, (a delightfully psycho-active part of a complete breakfast, ‘the Best to me each morning’), surely the Lord Chamberlain of morning, has me convinced that my worries of the past night were simply that… worries, not real at all; the reality of this morning in front of the computer with a cup of coffee on the desk is what is real and all of the tossing and turning of the night were merely projections and everyone knows, they are but shadow shows, the illusion of action and character and can’t be the actual world, otherwise I might find myself caught in them, like last night’s seemingly endless struggle, and that would be….
…Tough one.
At least it’s striking me so, here at 12:30 am Thursday the 27th, as I sit at my computer, typing, near-automatically with similar ambition (to the automatic writers of old), hoping against hope that motion of the pen (or keyboard) will be mother (or father) to art. Maybe they were on to something…
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Nicely reattached to the preamble. Im having a dejavu book moment but cant recall the book.
yeah.. I’ve read a ton (well, not quite a ton) of stories of the dreams within a dream… and Josie did that one a couple of weeks ago (principle of self-improvement: try it even if you know you can’t)… but I was going for (my favorite variation) was the ‘wake from a dream into reality that turns out to still be a dream’ which, for me, is one of the most horrifying concepts…. (but I better save that for next time.
oooh i totally get that last thing… total willies!!!!
Well put, Clark. A project like this was indeed a tough one!
lol nice! (get the prompt into the comment of the prompt in the…. damn!)
thank you, Michelle
This was a tough one – figures I pick a tough week to jump back in. Particularly loved the bit about coffee being the Lord Chamberlain of morning. Most excellent.
The looping re-attachment…clever. It fits.
yeah, I agree while I struggle with the prompt every week, this one really had me on the run
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I do love my coffee.. It makes the struggles of the night seem more like a dream.. Until not even the mighty caffeine ca keep my eyelids open….. *soft snores*
lol
My fav part? Sentence 4. You really got me with Sentence 4. “Shadow shows” indeed….
Yes, those night anxieties can really keep you awake, and yet, in the morning they evaporate like sip by sip. Nice.
too bad that, as a kid, I didn’t recognize that, it would take me much longer back then to shake off a bad night
“So spoke the voices of the night.” Sometimes, those voices are shouting; other times, they are talking so softly I can’t make them out, and that is maddening. Great story!
yeah, somehow, the shouting (voices) are easier to contend with than the quieter (and more confident ones)
This was great, I totally loved it, it left me smiling. I’ve had experiences similar to this in life.
thank you… finally some positive use for one of life’s more annoying elements
It sounds as though you have experience in working for a government department when a result is not so important as the effort or appearance to achieve one…preferably with a lot of publicity.
semi…
compliments, you have grasped one of the essential elements/characteristics of the rogerian worldview… cool
You did well with the tough prompt!! :)
thank you!