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Denise is the host of the Six Sentence Story
Take the prompt word and write a story exactly six sentence in length. Put that thing in a blogpost. Go to Denise’s website and follow the instructions.
If you do that, your blog’s Six Sentence Story will appear among the other contributors of the week. Once you see all the other Sixes, don’t be shy. Go and read them all. It’s fun, educational and good for you!
The prompt word this week is:
CODE
Maintaining the poker face oft adopted by college professors teaching entry-level courses, the man turned from the class and, treating himself to a private smile, wrote the word, ‘Apophenia’ across the blackboard.
His hand moved with a skill and practiced grace totally invisible to the young people gathered in the lecture hall; finishing with a flourish, he was rewarded with a minute snowstorm as the chalk crossed the slate, like lightning on a winter’s evening.
Behind him, the room came to life, although not yet entirely focused on the front of the room, the vamping of an orchestra just before the conductor raises his baton.
Amid the hormone-spiked susurrus, the teacher, like a seasoned tracker, took in the cues and clues holding the story of all in attendance; prominent was the deceptively inane titter of coeds responding to the muffled guffaws and innuendo-laden smirks of the prerequisite-indentured students.
Equally distinctive, though far more subtle, was the sound he was always alert for, the leaning-forward of soon-to-become-familiar students who brightened like summer fireworks at the sight of the word he’d written.
Beginning his first class of the Fall semester, he spoke to the few rather than the many, “Psychology is ‘the scientific study of the mind and behavior’, if you are here merely for GPA, study and your efforts will be rewarded; if, however, you are here in the hope of breaking the code of life among real people, take mind of the single word I’ve written and you will save yourself considerable disappointment.”
The fairly uncommon word, Apophenia, was the spark for this Six. According to Wikipedia: Apophenia is the tendency to mistakenly perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things. Readers of the Doctrine know that, as a clark, I’m a total sucker for words that imply the world (and the people making it up) are both way stranger than we give it credit for being.
Speaking of weird, most weeks I try to find a music video that either reinforces the story or, otherwise encourages me to write. This week’s vid is neither. I stumbled upon it for reasons quite unrelated to writing this Six, but watching it, I knew I had to include it. A perfect example of a clarklike female. enjoy, yo.
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Interesting six! Oh those college days!
we coud actually smoke in class (thats how long ago college was) lol
And you apparently didn’t attend BYU. LOL
lol but I did see the letters on the side of the mountains the two times I visited SLC!
The last sentence is the best :)
I enjoyed it as well.
I agree with both comments before me. You never disappoint. Well done!
Thank you
I loved the six sentence, and the new word – Apophenia.
I loved the video.
Do you think you could find me pink overalls; I would definitely enjoy?
Wasn’t that much of an Elton John fan, at least after Tumbleweed Connection
It’s not every day you see the word “susurrs” used in a blog post, but it has most assuredly made my day!
lol. yeah damn it! more semi- onamonapeic words!
Dang. Had to go to the dictionary. I appreciate that the poker faced professor addressed the few and not the many; to heck with the rest.
Fun six, could totally see that lecture hall.
Thanks, Miz Avery
What an interesting and instructive SSS! Great descriptive writing too. Totally enjoyed reading this.
The Sixes that involve fooling links through Wikipedia are always fun
Hey, let me in! Seeing as this is round 3 of attempted comment since last evening, I will simply say this was a very enjoyable post to read.
Fingers crossed the comment gods are in a good mood this evening :D
Your efforts have been rewarded, as words appear.
Learned a new word today. Good six!
Ty!
Excellent, and oh how right that professor is!
Tru dat.
Seeking the attentions of the few as opposed to the masses is of’t the road less traveled, and in it’s own way it was just such a circumstance that led me to you.. Brilliant writing as always. Thank you ever so much for bringing your Clark like persona into my field of consciousness..
Thanks, V.
I add my own gratitude for the Wakefield Doctrine. (By definition) clarks are Outsiders and therefore less likely to bump into each other (in comparison to our scottian and rogerian brethren). The rewards (for something that has never been work, i.e. writing this blog) has been to encounter other Outsiders and, in the kind of contradiction we all totally enjoy, not only share a kind of companionship, but benefit directly from the perspectives made freely available.
I like your innovative way of spreading knowledge on the Wakefield Doctrine.
thank you. the Doctrine is truly a fun and useful (additional/alternative) perspective on the world and the people who make it up.