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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘as expressed in replies, who said rhetorical Rorshach? was that you, zoe? lol’

July 16, 2016 By

Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

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(not-old Readers? Bob Newhart. he invented the form that I’m working for a recognizable imitation of with this post. check the bottom, I’ll put a link of the Master at work.)

 

1) “why no, not yet, but they say the nineties for the coming week, come on summertime.”

2) “yeah, you would think, with as long and thick a coat as she has, but she enjoys sitting and guarding the yard.”

3) “well, hell, she manages to enjoy nearly everything, one of the more gifted (in terms of seeing things from a positive perspective) people I know.”

4) “it’s going along, staying busy which is good always interesting”

5)  “I’d say it was the problem-solving, of course, another side of that is the part I enjoy the least!

6) “…pretty good, pretty good, we’re at Chapter 16 this week and, without giving anything away, our main characters are beginning to see, or maybe just sense, what it is that’s standing between them and a life they believe they should live.”

7) “they’re pretty remarkable bunch, imagine the discipline! every morning a photo!  what? well, no, it varies, but the thing about the Challenge is, it gets inside your head”

8) “pretty much the Book of Secret Rules aka the Secret Book of Rules, the community is so supportive and the goal, (of ten things). is so positive, you don’t need a BoSR/SBoR…. but tell me it ain’t fun!”

9)  “yeah, she’s amazing… my second favorite story about her? that she started this whole now-gigantically-beneficial ‘hop, writing a list on her own, and I do mean on her own…as in ‘2 comments showing up every other Post’ alone, as in bad grammar, tear-steeped determination to see it through alone….cool, very cool”

10) “well, you know!”

 

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re-print Friday3 -the Wakefield Doctrine- ’cause I’m in a ‘words-beget-words’ mode at the moment, but thank you for asking’

July 15, 2016 By

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(not everyone may know this, but that red building in Chicago? World Headquarters for the Omni Corporation... read all about in 'Blogdominion'

(not everyone may know this, but this red building in Chicago? World Headquarters for the Omni Corporation… read all about it in ‘Blogdominion’2

 

How do I know it’s been too long between ‘normal’ Doctrine Posts? Well, for starters, when I typed the first line, (which is always the first line), of this Post, the fricken spellcheck forgot how to spell ‘theory’!  (I don’t know about you* but I’ve noticed a tendency to, at certain times/moods, where I don’t bother being overly careful with my spelling and, will actually get mad when it, (the spellcheck, not my spelling). doesn’t correct the word fast enough so I don’t have to stop. Anyway, so I’m typing my intro line and when I get to ‘…the theory of…’ I mistype it (no big deal, as I’ve said) but I looked and it corrected to ‘their’, as in ‘…the their of…’ and I’m all, ‘whoa! grasp the telephone receiver firmly and await further instructions’!!1

So, anyway….

Back to my shameless self-promotion. (ed. note: holy smokes! my auto-correct is such a roger!! yeah, I know… no kidding…but  but! I mis-typed the word ‘shameless’ (well, got to stay with the theme of the day, don’t I?) and it corrected to ‘seamless’  lol

‘Almira‘  we’re somehow approaching the half-way point in our story! If you’re not familiar with ‘Almira’… come on! go here and read the story from the start. It’s Summer Time! you can pull up juke pop on your little cell phone and read it at the beach… although I should warn you, a major part of our tale takes place in Lawrence Massachusetts in 1911-1912…. in the winter! brrr! In any event, my seeming surprise at where I am in the novel is quite genuine, in that I’m taking is what I believe is called ‘seat of the pants’  approach to writing. I write by the Chapter, literally. Have no idea how this thing ends. That is, of course, the fun and exciting (and impressively stressful) result seat-of-the-pants writing.

Oh well, what am I gonna do.  Chapter 15 due out this weekend… Dorothy is forced to accept that there is something wrong in her life, and at the same time, something quite exciting (not giving anything away, but Tom Hardesty is there at her time of need and gives her a ride home), Eliza meets Hunk Dietrich and she’s not half as surprised at his response to her as he is… and, is it me, or is Dr. Thaddeus Morgan growing shorter and more …. Professor Marvel-istic  like the guy in that other story?

Hey, really have enjoyed our time together this morning.

 

* well, that’s not quite true, I do know about you… a lot, too much you might say, all due to the totally fun and useful theory of clarks, scotts and rogers!**

1)  …. you non-old Readers might fail to to feel the pleasure of the idiom ‘hold the phone‘…. because at a certain time in history, it was not a given that your telephone was not in your hand already, as in ‘all-the-damn-time, like,-why-don’cha-get-it-surgically-attached-save-yourself-some-valuable-texting-time-not-having-to-pick-it-up…. wait, that was a joke! no, I don’t think they have that yet.

2) ‘Blogdominion’ the first in the Sister Margaret Ryan Series.

** I will tell you! I know the characteristics of the personal reality of the three personality types so well, that I don’t need to make a conscious effort anymore (“…hmmm lets, see…’has a tendency to never throw anything away, keeping tupperware in the refrigerator as long as there are more than 2 adjacent molecules of foodstuffs, clinging, rattling-around-on-the-bottom, or giving the hint of color to the edge of the top, believes in using only one set of bath towels at a time, always re-washing the same set, rather than cycling sets, believes that the movie-making sun rises and sets on Ken Burns…. roger!  got it!) and so, when I meet people, a part of my mind is observing the person through the ‘lens’ of the Wakefield Doctrine. Very helpful!

3) huh! didn’t need an old post, after all!

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘yeah, well, there was a time when these stories actually made sense!’

July 14, 2016 By

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Were I to hold forth on the rules and requirements of this, zoe’s  Six Sentence Story, would I risk being accused of writing an introduction, ‘by the book’?

To escape the accusation of over-research and (a) contrived premise, could I suggest that, in the course of this introduction, I am practicing a rhetorical device, much as I did in last week’s Six? Not without risk, I might add, as to attempt both would surely test the good temper of you, the Reader. So, then, to the story! It’s generally accepted that Shakespeare, in having Juliet say to Romeo, ‘You kiss by the book’, was, in fact, making a reference to the secret handshakes employed by members of the Rosicrucian Order, of which William was a member of very high standing. I would tell more, enough to convince you beyond doubt of his involvement, were it not for the fact that I have only Six Sentences to tell this week’s story, the minimum number of sentences that might comprise a story legitimately employing a Narrator (reliable or otherwise).

 

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 9, 2016 By

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L. Lewis, ( alas, still no proof of being related to C. S. Lewis, Sinclair Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Daniel Day Lewis or even Lewis Carroll!), invites us all, this week, as she has since time immemorial, (or May of a few years ago), to share the things in our lives that we perceive as having the quality of gratitudinosity, (i.e. capable of causing a person to be thankful, the elusive and totally legendary, ‘aww particle’).

You know, not that I’m not totally into simple, chronologically-rigorous, straightforward accounting for recent events and happenstance, simple logical lists and such, but sometimes, on those rare occasions, I feel the urge to break loose from the bounds and bindery of rules and regulations. (There is a reason that the name of this bloghop is ‘Ten Things of Thankful’, hint: it has to do with the number of items necessary to conform to the standards set in the beginning of her project. That said, there are times when we all find ourselfs needing to follow the rhetorical road less travelled. For the record, I have been one to do this, from time to time exhibiting a belief that, ‘good intentions trump decaphilia every time.’)

So this week, I’d like to present a supra-grat item to:

1)   to the nature of this virtual world and the ‘real’ people who create community, (such as the TToT and the Gravity Challenge and the Six Sentence Story and countless other gathering points), for the imaginarily real people who are sitting behind computer screens beyond number, sending their word-shaped thoughts outward towards other, virtually the same as the people in your house and who you meet on the street everyday, people. It’s pretty remarkable and what amazes me the most, is that all this doesn’t result in one long chain-letter, or spray-painted graffiti on digital city-building walls, rather, it results in knowing people and coming to know (to a certain extent, in some, small and specific and in others, broad and generalized), other people and their lives. The realization of this came a couple of years ago when, probably in these very pages, I said to one ‘person’ about another ‘person’,  “this reminds me of the time that Christine had a chicken get out and it managed to climb a tree and she had to put on those over-sized boots and trudge through the mud…”  There is ‘knowing people’ and there is ‘knowing people’. The former is commonly seen in the workplace and the supermarket and passing in the playground and hanging out at the corner. The latter is about sharing history, inviting others to learn about things that don’t show as we walk about during the week or when we pass each other in innumerable cars on crowded highways. That we allow others to see our lives means that I can see a name on the screen and laugh to myself because, I remember the time….

…so to all the imaginary people here on these pages, I say, ‘thanks! without M. Lewis, (who adamantly refuses to reveal that C.S was, in fact, her uncle), I would not have know that: Christine had a spider invasion and that she does this cool thing with random road trips or that Kristi, who is part of a remarkable community in her own right, is very good with a camera out a car window at 90 mph, or Kristi Campbell is getting shorter and shorter in the time I’ve known her, (this being the more reasonable explanation,’cause Tucker can’t be getting that tall, that fast) or that Michelle is, like so fearless, as to take us for a live video walk to the park, or that Sarah has this mutant baking skill that produces stuff that looks like it was stolen from a bakery, (not saying that she steals from bakeries, per se), or Lisa doesn’t have this way cool writing room that has bookselfs and everything in it or that Dyanne likes to jump in her car and drive 389 miles, cause she has a hankering for a Lil Debbie or because she needs to buy the perfect accessory for her firefighter outfit, (that she totally should wear on the first day of her class each fall, wake them little 5 years right the heck up), or that zoe (aka ivy) didn’t have a dog name doug (or skip)… and that zoe put her car back together during ‘the Vacation Trip of last summer’ with nothing but duct tape, and that, sadly, there is not enough duct tape in the world to put back together her heart, now that doug/skip is gone.

these are the elements of my Ten Things of Thankful this week.

(if desired, I can produce a numbered version of the above, simply send a SASE to ‘who-the-hell-is-this-guy-and-when-was-the-decision-made-to-let-him-have-a-computer-with internet-access?!’)

Having lived through the loss of an animal companion, I offer my two favorite vids.

 

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Second Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

July 7, 2016 By

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Hey! Wait, you’re in the right place! Thursday is still zoe’s day to challenge all who care to step up and write a story using six, (and only six), sentences. As is our way, the title of, (any given), Six Sentence Story is totally impulse driven and the best we hope for is that it has, at minimum, words that involve the use of the same ‘S’s’ as are found in the name: Six Sentence Story.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should explain how the Title came to be and, by doing so, properly set up this week’s Six. It’s no secret that I look at these Six Sentence Stories as opportunities to learn and practice ‘the writing thing’. I’m a total student of the, ‘hang-out-with-people-who-have-skills-you-hope-to-acquire-and-some-of-it-may-rub-off-on-you’, school of self-taught writing. So this morning I’m sitting here playing solitaire hoping to come up with a ‘hook’. I already had an idea of the rhetorical clothes I was going to try to hang on the cue word, ‘market’, but I just couldn’t hear the story. Then I got to thinking about POV and it occurred to me that, to the best of my recollection, I haven’t tried a Second Person Six Sentence Story. Of course, part of me was, all, like, ‘probably a good reason you haven’t, clark’. In any event, I did what comes naturally and looked up Second Person Point of View,

“a narrative mode in which the protagonist is referred to by second person pronouns, such as ‘you’ …traditionally, the second-person form is used less often in literary fiction than the first-person and third-person. But it is… a very common technique of …  genres such as guide books, self-help books, do-it-yourself manuals, .. advertisements, and also blogs.”   cha  ching!)

 

You’d rather stay in and watch Popeye the Sailor Man cartoons, but your mother says she has a couple of things to pick up at Oliveira’s Market and, clearly seeing a need to convince you, promises to have you back before the show starts, so you shrug into the grey winter coat, un-doing the shiny metal clips that bite into the cuffs and, with a short black elastic ribbon, holds your mittens and you defiantly, (but unobtrusively), put them in your pocket.

It’s only a short car ride, the quiet streets now bare of leaves on trees and Summer People on Vacation, so there’s not even time to play with the radio.

The door to the Oliviera’s Market has a little bell on a piece of metal that the door bumps into when it’s opened and makes a tiny bell sound when you walk in, under a canopy of your mother’s blue wool coat and the grey-hazy cloud of her Chesterfield. You wander the narrow aisles, the dry peppery smell of the section where they have tilted wooden baskets with potatoes and onions, is right next to where they sell the hamburger and meats, wrapped in yellowish-brown paper, sealed with a single strip of masking tape from the holder on top of the glass display case.  You look around and spot your mother, already at the counter and figure there’s just enough time to check if any new comics are in, spinning the rounded metal holder that display the Superman and Batman and Archie Comic books, one above the other and you see one that you know must be new, but hear your mother say, “Let’s go, I want to keep my promise at least this one time,” and you’re out the door and into the car.

Back in the living room, you walk to the TV, pull out the switch that turns it on, flip down the rounded oblong panel on the front, give the middle of the three cone-shaped controls a slight turn to stop the upwards rolling of the picture, and, with a backwards flex of both arms, throw your coat behind you, towards the couch, (not noticing that the pocket now contain only one mitten), and sit into a cross-legged position that you know will make you mother say, ‘sit back, you’ll go blind being that close to the TV’.

You wonder, as Bluto beats up on Popeye, why Popeye doesn’t just eat his spinach when he leaves his house, or, even if he forgot, eat it as soon as he sees Bluto grab Olive Oyl, who you don’t think is all that pretty and, besides, why does she keep letting him grab her, it’s not like he doesn’t do that every single time he shows up at her house.

 

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