Month: May 2021 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

Quick, little re-print post to tide us over, as we work on this week’s Six Sentence Story (and continue the edit (‘re-‘, ‘re-‘,’re-‘ edit, that is) of ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’

Cynthia and Denise and I were touching on this very topic, this weekend past.

go figure

11 Web Pages Open -the Wakefield Doctrine- ‘clarks and the seduction of creativity’

May 18, 2016 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

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

Funny, the process becomes the end in itself.

It’s a matter of fact that. of the three personality types of the Wakefield Doctrine, clarks are the creative ones. That being said, we have the ‘Everything Rule’ to remind us that, ‘everything happens to everyone, at one time or another’. So, when it comes to creativity as a quality (available) to people of the three worldviews, it’s not correct to say that scotts and rogers are not/cannot be creative, they can! It’s simply that how (a quality) such as ‘creativity’ manifests is where the difference lies. (And the cool thing is, when you consider the manner in which a thing/quality/characteristic exists for each, the character of that personal reality becomes all the more easily appreciated). Lets take creativity. (please!)

clarks will create (or perhaps it might be more accurate, if not more obscure to say), bring into existence that which has never existed before

rogers will create by taking that which exists (be they tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper) and reconfigure, re-arrange into something unlike any previous arrangement of (tiny tubes of paint, of pieces of wood or even notes on paper)

scotts will take from themselves that which exists within everyone else and present it in a context that no one has, (or can recall), witnessing before

there! pretty simple, isn’t it?

clarks create, rogers innovate and scotts evoke

so the Post subtitle? why do I seem to cast creativity in the role of a temptation that might be better off fed? Because as clarks, we create because we’re Outsiders, we are able to create because we’re Outsiders and, yet, we cannot create within ourselfs the thing that might change our Outsider natures.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Hosted by Dyanne, created by Lizzi, encouraging all within arm(and finger)’s length of a keyboard and a connection to the internet to share those people, places, things, events and imaginings that have inspired the experience of feeling gratitude. Share ’em if ya got ’em.

1) Phyllis (in the backseat, taking pitchas)

2) Una (riding shotgun, head out the window, taking it all in)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (being a perspective on how one relates themselves to the world around them, its pretty much ever where)

4) the Six Sentence Story blog hop (in the virtual world, a coffeehouse tavern with cigarette-scarred and half-moon liquor stained tables, regulars who will see a story in the pulsing of the caterpillar’s cocoon, and a wait staff with heart’s stories waiting to be told)

5) serial stories (manifesting as ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘ their storylines branching as enthusiastically as a pitcher of ice water on the side of a desert hill)

6) Cynthia (calling in on the Wakefield Doctrine call-in, bringing a view of the variety and potential of a life well-explored)

7) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing (on the over-sized, slightly concave screen in an off-the-beaten-path drive-in theatre, like a documentary, writ twenty feet high, viewers come and decide whether to: listen closely, meet some friends at the refreshment bunker or, after running up and down the corrugated rows of parking spaces, fall asleep in the back seat)

8) Una’s Garden before

9) Una’s Garden (almost) after

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) in partis: “[Y]ou’ve made it this far, you can see the finish line, go ahead and throw in the sink, you’re gonna be fine;” …op.sit. ibid. auf wiedersehen.

music

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 12, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

It is hosted by Denise.

This is a ‘Whitechapel Interlude‘ week.

That means that the Six Sentence Story that follows is the latest installment in (that) serial story.

The prompt word:

IMPROVISE

“Anselm!”

Sarah and Brother Abbott, welcome lighthouses on a sea of cobblestones and indifferent passersby’s, stared down at me; my name on their lips, masques of relief, gilded with worry; framed by the corrugated rooflines of Dorsett Street; their non-verbal essays of love and concern called out from their faces and whispered in their eyes.

The last memory I had was, like a letter written on old parchment and stored carefully after multiple readings, manifested as two separate but integral parts, the top and bottom of an oft-read letter on time-worn parchment; the first was of the time traveler and the second, below the fold of the page, was a cacophony of sights and recollection of a place, I could never have been.

Like an artist’s sheaf of preliminary sketches, the familiar rendered in a form one step shy of alien; my mind was so buffeted by images without intelligence, scenes lacking context and vistas that simply were not of this earth, I feared it had torn loose of it’s stays or, worse, had been tampered with; the consistent theme was walking along a street here in London.

The only stable remnant, not blurred by fear nor distorted by incredulity, was the image of the time traveler smiling as he opened the door to his apartment in Chiltern Court, somehow, now directly connected to the present, moment, looking up at the faces of my friends.

“Easy, take it slow”, “Are you alright” words shaped by lips, thoughts without sound; from Brother Abbott, a wary reassurance and from Sarah, relief with the hint of the ferocity found deep within every predator, awaiting the call to improvise.

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Tuesday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

So I’ve been on a roll with writing the last few days. Specifically, going through a full (re)-edit of ‘the Case of the Missing Starr’, my first Ian Devereaux story.*

In any event, I sometimes think we all get only a certain supply of words and energy on a given day. Hey! I think I touched on that in this reprint post!

(The reprint comes from…. “hmmm today’s the 11th…. did we write in the Year Eleven? Yes sir, we did!”) btw the original title was a bunch of dots/dashes a binary title. ha ha)

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

The Post Title? Probably should be embarrassed to admit it, but it is kind of a joke title. If you want to know the joke, you need to Comment. Write in at the bottom of this here Post here and ask, we will be happy to let you in on the, in-15-minutes-this-will-seem-way-unfunny, joke. ( Smart money is on the clarklike Readers to be the ones to figure it out on their own.)

Speaking of no one willing to write a simple frickin Comment, what does this blog have to do to get you Readers to write us some input? Go back through the old Posts and you will see plenty of Contest Posts that offered hats (for Comment-writing-Reader’s damn heads) and you will see many Posts that directly come out and say, “Hey Readers, write us some Comments, yo”. But, to date, all we have are the same Progenitors and DownSprings writing in, however, don’t get the wrong impression, we do appreciate theys writing. And just so no one gets nervous, Comments or not, we will still produce Posts about the Wakefield Doctrine.

And as to the ‘why’? There are two schools of thought about this “problem”:
the tone of these Posts (and the whole Wakefield Doctrine blog) is too, secret club/private joke/intimidating for the average Reader. While our first inclination would be to say, “What, are you stupid or something?” No less a Reader than Friend of Doctrine, Mel (blog writer emeritus at ‘the Spatula), voiced such sentiment in an email last year. So we would not discount this as a possibility.
the second (school of thought) ties into this first, ‘secret club’ view in a way that we are more than happy to expound upon; this opinion holds that nere the fact that Readers (may) be hesitant to write Comments is proof the Wakefield Doctrine is everything that we all know it to be, i.e. the perfect theory of personality!

A bold statement? Yes, yes it is. But true, nonetheless.

The reason that the lack of Comments is validation of the efficacy of the Wakefield Doctrine as a personality theory and (how it should be Voted Number One among all such theories that offer to lend insight into the psyche of your relative/friend/neighbor), is simply that most of these Posts are written by a clarklike personality type. If you read the Page on clarks, it will all make perfect sense! If a clark writes a blog it will:

be totally creative, from an originality point of view

it will be quirky but funny

it will be disjointed and difficult to follow at times

it will be oddly funny and strangely endearing

it will be a thing to be valued by the Readers simply by virtue of being one of the few who “get it”

it will sound like an inside joke even though it is not

it will be presented without demands on the Reader, without the slightest sense of excluding anyone

That the Wakefield Doctrine predicts this should not be so surprising. And the fact that the ‘objection’ to the insider tone of the blog would come from the rogerian Readers is simply further proof of our assertion that this is the best of all Personality Theories! If you read the Page on rogers, you will see that it predicts the reaction of the rogerian Reader with equal veracity!

Damn, is this a useful thing, or what?

* at some point in the semi-recent past, I took it to mind to write a pulp detective/first person noir(ish) novel. It turned out to be fun. No surprise, (to followers of the Doctrine), I went the serial story route. Which worked out fine. Better than ‘the Hobbomock Chronicles’ which has stalled, at the present time. But that’s not important now. My inspiration for choosing this genre? Mostly Robert Parker’s ‘Spenser’ series. I liked the deceptive simplicity of the style. But the real cigarette butt in the drizzle-trail of gasoline was a quote from a Raymond Chandler novel. I’ll go find it so I can copy paste it.

Sure, you’d think I could remember and type it out, ‘freehand’, it’s not all that long a quote. Hell, it’s not even really a quote, more a description. A metaphor….or simile…anagram, whatever. I can never keep those straight. My point is there is something amazing about world-class talent. You read it or hear it and are like, ‘Wow’ And you think, ‘I remember that’ and then try to play it or write it, knowing in your head what you heard and then, you listen/read it again and it’s just a little more than you remember. Every time you try…lol A little bit more. That’s the difference.

Here’s copy paste:

“It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”

See??!!

Sorry, you don’t see because it was the versions that were in my head, even as I pasted this quote. Not quite the same thing as he wrote.

Damn! To get half as good as this guy was.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

May 8, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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

This is the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop.

Brought to reality, in the summer of 1979, by Lizzi* The TToT is, at last report, the third longest-running grat blog.

* ————————→——————–→————–→
It was, “the worst of times, it was the worst of time” except (or perhaps in reinforcement of the chaos of culture), Pink Floyd released ‘The Wall’**

Currently the host of the TToT is Dyanne. Aided by her co-hostinae, Patricia, Lisa and Linda-Lou, she invites one and all to join each week as we explore gratitude as it manifests in our lives.

Somewhere at the bottom of the page, are the links to where the other participants, who have applied their good intentions, considerable writing skills and graceful expression of the topic, hang out.

The Wakefield Doctrine is here, somewhere… betcha you don’t have any trouble distinguishing one from the others.

So, before incoherence totally claims this post (like a scott, walking away from the cafeteria line, confronted with a very large room divided, like candy in a Coinamatic, by melamine-covered, four-by-eight foot tables; some are exclusively occupied by rogers, one or two mostly clarks but, never is there a table full of scotts (unless the table had, until a moment before was where the twelve hapless lunchtime students donated their food to the pack standing a jagged, hungry, circle around the neat rows of folding chairs)

Where were we?

Our Founderette recognized the value of cultivating gratitude and it was fortunate for us she had the courage and the will*** to create the blog you are currently enjoying… well, if this is your first stop, do not despair, like a graffiti-tagged building one block from a museum or a hospital, keep in mind, the external is rarely the location of the precious.

We could relate the inspiring story¹ of the first days of this bloghop, but if you’re one of the few who’ve persisted this long, pushing through the dense rhetorical underbrush, we offer the sight of your goal:

1) Phyllis (the Alfred Hitchcock in the photo)

2) Una (the Dennis Hopper in the photo)

3) the Wakefield Doctrine (’cause sine qua non, binyons, sine qua non!)

4) the Six Sentence Story a place learn, practice and enjoy the fine art of little, tiny stories that you can have any time… like M&Ms (yeah! zactly like M&Ms!)

5) ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf’ Because, who doesn’t enjoy a good serial story… they’re like an open book exam, no pressure and if you lose track of a character or narrative arc, well! just click back a few chapters! It’s all good, yo.

6) the 20 Minute Real Estate Briefing. Hey stayed tuned! We’ll be asking for some audience/viewer participation soon.

ok…just the abridged version of the ‘Story of Lizzi and the Dragon‘… “…the weight of negative emotions grew almost daily. Though accustomed to the periodic silent, cold of the dark place, a point on the map all too familiar to people of her kind, (an Outsider, some might even say, a clark…however one of the first and few rules of a certain Doctrine holds that one person cannot assign a category to another, at least not if they hope to claim authority). The weight grew greater and the dark place darker, until the idea, (mentioned by another, found in the pages of book now lost), came to her: ‘Write a list of things for which you are grateful. And write it…everyday.’ And she did. Everyday. Alone, (as this was in the beginning and there were not yet fans and Readers and people who would be drawn to her). It’s the writing the list alone, without the co-support of others of like mind. A demonstration of will. And courage in the face of an adversary that only a certain group have the awareness of. The End.

7) 8). awww, come on! can you give a blogger a little ibid. here, yo? You gots a history story. Besides, our hostinae, Dyanne totally approves… no, I don’t know that for a fact. I got to the sidewalk just as her car roared away from the curb, a dialogue balloon… “Cars, bitches… do a thing with cars!”

9) something something

10) SR 1.3 …because the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules) waits for no one, it (the BoSR/SBoR) is the rhetorical expression of the famous quote (Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’) “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” You got a rule book with mad blank pages, use them wisely, grasshopperini