Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
….late. So late that it’s Thursday morning! shit! I’m looking at what I wrote yesterday, as my ‘starter words’, you know, so I wouldn’t have to stare at a blank screen? The blank screen is more engaging than my three sentences. Have I said, ‘shit!’ yet? Hey, I hadn’t realized how they’ve relaxed the rules on using that word on TV, until I saw something on ‘late night TV’* in any event, they seem ok with saying that word out loud. Which, as my friends already know, saddens me. Words have power. The source of the power (of words) varies, sometimes it’s their literal content, sometimes it’s their historical ties and, in the case of our ‘swear words’ the power is, at least in part, based in being forbidden. No longer forbidden, no longer powerful, ya know? But this is Six Sentence Story Thursday, so I better stop with my wooing** and start with my storyfying, or zoe’s gonna be banging on the door (metaphorically, of course)…. “hey!! ya been in there an hour!! come on! the day’s out here waitin!!”
scraping up the dead leaves, (in a spot for his head to rest), he lies on the ground.
finding a place, near, (not too near, but within the sound of the river), she lies on the ground
he thinks, ‘the earth spins and yet gravity attracts us to the center of the earth, such a powerful force (F = G*((m sub 1*m sub 2)/r^2))’
she feels, ‘the earth is moving and the sun divides day from night, there is a cycle in nature and nature is a cycle”
standing up, he knows, ‘I can harness this power’
lying still, she knows, ‘I am part of this power’
*lol yeah, 10 pm… how sad is that?
**the ‘warm-up section, you know how I seem to believe that I have to…never mind, here’s my Six
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NOWAY FRIST!?!?!?!
way!
FRIST
BOOM!
*punches the air* ALRIIIIGHT!
Anyway…to your story. Not so much the juxtaposition for me, as the KNOWLEDGE (well, and maybe the juxtaposition in that).
thanks… the juxtaposition? meaning the contrast of the worldviews?
More the attitudes. But then I thought about the KNOWLEDGE, and how he knows everything because he’s a man, and she knows nothing, because she’s a woman (she’s NOT a woman) ((you BASTARD!))
(10 points if you get the ref)
‘fraid I am lacking (closest guess took me towards the Garden of Eden, but my confidence flagged at the last minute).
(I would submit that, leaving the word knowing un-defined, they both know something of immense value, he for the life of comfort, she for the comfort of life)
wow… I love this… Its downright … dare I say it? … poetic.
thank you… reminds me of a scene from Blazing Saddles*
* one of the top three funniest movies
Wow…you know how to rip up a piece of lyrical writing….hint: compare it to Blazing Saddles….lol!
I can’t imagine what you could possibly be alluding to
I love it too Ivy!
What a lovely (yes “lovely”) use of the six sentence to highlight a difference in personal realities.
Love it.
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Geez, you can really turn out some amazing stories!
You know, if it were ME lying there, I would be thinking, “I hope nothing crawls on me. What if something crawls on me? IS SOMETHING CRAWLING ON MEEEEEE?! Oh, look, a squirrel….”
thank you, Dyanne
(for the record I smiled when I read the ‘Comment blurb’ on my dashboard which showed: “Geez, you can really turn out some amazing stories! You know, if it were ME lying there, I would be …” I smiled in anticipation, given your gift for the fun/the surprise/the ‘oh, man! we got home in one piece!! when do we go again?)
Hey!! I hear you want to join us on the vidchat tomorrow night! very cool…. I’ve been posting the link on the Facebook when it’s live, also sending the link by message as well…will be fun
Awesome! Two mindsets… one of control, one of belonging. I think that plays out in so many situations. You did this contrast amazingly well in just six sentences, Clark!
thank you…. this is a fun (in a try way) exercise!
I don’t know whether you have furthered male/female relations with this piece. Mind you I am different for when as I boy I longed for a dolly. I did grow out of that though when I realized that the aim was to have a real, live, temperamental, dolly for one’s own so I conformed with that pattern after all with just a few broken hearts on the way…all mine.
not looking for that (furthering m/f relationships…) so much, being of a mind that there is no such thing as changing another person, at least not directly/by force… (lol…. we have a saying about the Wakefield Doctrine, ‘the Doctrine is for you, not them’ which is not as self-centered as it might sound, more of a reminder that we, all of us, can only take responsibility for our own selfs…. but, if we do that, it would be enough.
the thing about this week’s Six is that, it (if there is any insight within, somewhat recognizable, like a child’s attempt to wrap a large, un-wieldly present) clarks seek to learn things as an end in and of itself (sort of) so we think and examine pretty much everything we have time for… the difference in the worldview of the genders not exempt
(btw the Wakefield Doctrine is both gender neutral and culture neutral… and age neutral, now that I think of it)
Damn, Clark, that’s powerful. Oh, sorry – how unoriginal of me to choose that word. Perhaps I should sleep.
thanks Lisa!
Oh. I was going to say powerful too, but Lisa declares that word unoriginal? Hmm.
I’ll take it lol
Was that Ophelia, lying in the stream?
like the painting…. some French guy from, like a pretty longtime ago will try and look it up