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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 18, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Denise is the host.

Six is the number of sentences in our stories (for this here bloghop here).

Previously, from the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf…

Ian Devereaux was one of those people who put more effort into avoiding being unhappy than most did to achieve actual happiness. Intelligence, and a genuine grasp of creativity, equipped him to avoid the things in life that seemed to need avoidance. Not without a sense of social impropriety, he enjoyed the notion that he’d created ‘ghosting’ years before the term gained general popularity. Ian took his abrupt absences as seriously as he felt them and paid the price of reentry. Despite his ambivalence, he knew walking away from people was far easier than walking back to them.

Prompt word:

EXPLORE

“You got a pair, Devereaux, I’ll give you that,” Lou Ceasare’s voice had a lot in common with those QUIET signs, held aloft by PGA tournament marshals, except the gallery on this Tuesday afternoon consisted mostly of day-drinkers, a Black stripper by the name of ‘Flawless Carbon’ and a table full of truant conventioneers; at the word ‘You’, the joint got as quiet as an eight-year-old in their first confessional, hearing the wooden hiss of little door in the wall slide open.

His place, the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge, was half a block from my office on Empire Street; I was across the street from the Providence public library and Lou’s place was directly opposite the Convention Center, who says the universe doesn’t occasionally try to make sense; it’s been my default lunchtime-hangout since I’ve been in the detective racket.

I sat opposite Lou in the last of the red-leather booths that lined the plate-glass and stainless steel wall looking out onto Fountain Street; the table tops were a dark wood, varnished into stain-proof mirrors and the menus, too big to hold in one hand, had red tasseled cords.

“Hey, Lou, come on,” as verbal counter-punches go, my retort was as effective as a child’s, ‘Cause I don’t want to!’ to a still-in-a-good-mood parent; but this was part of the process: I disappear and then pay the price of readmission to my own life.

“OK, I get the blowin’ off the client, what’s that professor chick’s name again, but,” Lou’s voice dropped a hundred decibels, “Not for nuthin, Ian, in my view you’ve failed to sufficiently explore the ramifications of your precipitous actions, in particular, a certain woman aiding your client’s search,” his ability to mimic was world class, and as did all the greats, he changed more than the tone of his voice; at the moment, if I closed my eyes, I might believe I was sitting in my last therapist’s book-lined office.

“I like you, kid, I really do, but if you make my city a place of interest to that psycho-corporate bitch in Chicago, I’ll put you in the fuckin ground myself, you know what I’m saying?” Lou smiled like a bachelor uncle at his favorite nephew’s birthday party.

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‘Random-number-converted-to-date Reprint Monday’ -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 16, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Creativity in service of phoning-in a post!

(Full Disclosure: the number what popped in my head this morning was 27-6-14. So, naturally, I thought, there’s the fairest way to find a reprint post for this Monday morning!)

(New Readers? Here, at the Wakefield Doctrine, we apply a certain libertisitic principle to content creation. Sure we do reprints, but, as Doctrine fave, Heraclitus, reminds us, ‘You can’t step in the same river twice.’ Which we take as license to emulate the past, while accepting the fact that what passes for the past, here in the future, is neither.)

Whoa! Dude (Jeff Spicoli reference, for you not-young Readers, in probable, mis-remembered line from the movie.)

Serially. The Wakefield Doctrine is a perspective, a tool, if you will, on the world around us and the people who make it up¹. By employing these perspectives when interacting with other people, we stand half a chance of appreciating how they are experiencing (a given situation) and, therefore, avoiding misunderstanding. Which we know, accounts for eighty percent of interpersonal conflict. (The other twenty percent, is because we want to.)

The reprint post from June 27, 2014:

Bullet-point Friday! the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)

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We want to thank Dyanne for the splendid scottian Post yesterday, it was everything the Doctrine would have it be! Seriously, it was fun, and, as I alluded to in (one of) my comments, it makes me very happy to be a part of this here Wakefield Doctrine blog community here.

Being Friday* lets totally dispense with the formality of grammar and rhetoric and such! bring on the bullet

points!!

no, we are not going to get too, overly clever, but like that last 12 inches as you park in the garage, and the thing you’re going to hit (if you’re going to hit anything), has disappeared out of view below the hood of the car and you just keep inching in hoping not to hear any sounds of collision and or protest.

so for the weekend ahead:

TToT as always! I will now, today, invoke SR 7.3.5 (yes, a high risk manoeuvre, I realize) which will forward reference the following items to the list: 1) grateful for the Readers of the Wakefield Doctrine and all the Guest Post writers for making Thursdays the most… interesting day of the week! 2) the Wakefield Doctrine(first list iteration) for providing, not only a tool and a perspective, but a self-development tool that is beyond compare and item 3) the total, <= 1% chance of snow in the next 48 – 72 hour forecast!

the question is, how to link this specific section into tomorrow’s TToT? any suggestions out there, send it on

the ‘Great American Scrolling Novel’ is continuing to (un)scroll over at the Secessionist Rag… go over, read (yes, it’s in reverse order, i.e. the most recent Chapter at the top…they’re kind of short so you can scroll down to the first and read through in one sitting… hey! tell us if you can guess where Denise comes in as co-writer)

will do a vid Post… two challenges: my regular camera doesn’t seem to work anymore and the weather is nice, which means walkers** are out and Una really gets a kick out of sneaking up and barking in their left ears

…will stop for a minute, for those of you who have to head out to work, I will Post this now…and add to it a little later.

ok…back! the book project continues at it’s near-catatonically glacial pace, however, I do have a sense of what it is I would like to have, when I am done

a clear outline of the Wakefield Doctrine interspersed with excerpts from Posts (and) a running sidebar***

just so I don’t forget! next week is a roger(ian) Guest Post writer… lets get to that list and see who we can get!

I think I’ve padded this Post about as much as necessary, will be back later in the day…

* the day of the week when you can pretend you’ve earned it!

** no! not those walkers… people (living people) who are out walking for the health of it!

*** provided, of course, that there is such a thing as a ‘running sidebar’

1) Still my all-time favorite secret joke.

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TToT -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 14, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s weekly contribution to the Ten Things of Thankful bloghop. (Weekly contribution motto: Words are like rain drops, drive fast enough and you won’t need the windshield wipers. You’ll get where you want to be, if you don’t mind a little blurry, stretched-out traffic light-looking things appearing in your path.)

Each week, posts are written by talented bloggers who share their insights and perspectives on life, the week just passed, and the people, places and things that cause and otherwise incite a feeling of gratitude. They let us link up too!

Created in late summer, 1998 by Lizzi, as she stood looking over the windswept moors of Manchester, just a scone’s throw from West Yorkshire. (The time-of-day was early evening, the weather harshly-pleasant and the mood, ominous. Or, so the story goes.)

This week from your favorite Doctrine:

1) Una

2) Phyllis

3) the Wakefield Doctrine

4) From summers passed: Click on This to go back to August 2013

5) the Six Sentence Story Hey, you like to write? Made-up stories? Short made-up stories? We mean, really short. Then make a decision to write one and link it up at the Six Sentence Story bloghop. They have a prompt word, a near-Mother Teresa level of tolerance, (they let the Doctrine in each week), and I gots a gunny sack full a semi-colons to help you close that rhetorical suitcase. And…and! It won’t like, ‘Who the hell are these people? Or asking yourself, ‘Well, how did I get here?’ You’ll see ‘people’ you know, like Pat Brockett and Mimi and Lisa and Romi and our own Tasmanian-hostinae Dyanne. Plus a buncha other people, like Ford Mage and Chris and Susan…. It’s fun. Tell ’em the Doctrine sent ya.

6) Serial stories: ‘the Whitechapel Interlude‘ and ‘the Case of the Missing Fig Leaf‘

7) Speaking of windswept moors…here’s a photo of our thistle garden. (Damn! Just got an ’80s tune in my head.)

8) Hokey smoke! I used the Pat Benatar version of the first of this week’s music vid. I remembered that Kate Bush wrote it. Looked at (her) video. Got so Ed Sullivaned* that I stopped (forget which of the two versions it was). Then I came back. (You know how, on really windy and cold winter’s day you ran out for the mail without a coat and the shock of the temperature differential takes your breath away, lungs threaten to stop, but you push on, get the mail and then run back to the house and safety? The first minute with Kate’s vid was that. But, much in common with the aforementioned winter’s ordeal, I started to re-like it. (No, Dyanne, not music appreciation numbness!) Funniest comment on the youtube for this song and we’ll let you get on to the rest of the list. Someone wrote, Billie Ellish: ‘I make the weirdest music videos’. Kate Bush: ‘Here, hold my acid.’ lol)

9) something, something.

10) Secret Rule 1.3 from the Book of Secret Rules (aka the Secret Book of Rules)

* ‘Ed Sullivaned’. To be victim of empathy-backwash. Back, in the before-time, there was a TV show, the Ed Sullivan Show. It was a ‘variety show’, we could write five posts on the show alone, but our point here is that, as a very young clark, watching the jugglers keeping the plates spinning on tall, thin poles, if perchance, one would fall, I would feel embarrassed. Three hundred miles away, my face would burn and I’d glance around to see if anyone was laughing or scolding me.

Yeah, I’m a clark. I trust this makes sense to few Readers. (I got your back, Mimi, Denise, Cynthia…lol)

music

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 11, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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This is the Six Sentence Story bloghop.

Curated by Denise, populated by a group of mutant bloggers (and bloggerinae) who’ll chase you across the schoolyard and wrassle you to the ground, shouting, “The inciting incident in this Six ain’t nothing! I gots narrative arcs and hell, possibly even a denouement, binyon!”

This week, we return to London’s Whitechapel district during the late Victorian.

Previously, on the Whitechapel Interlude…

Anselm and Sarah are living proof of the wisdom of the Order of Lilith’s recruiting and training philosophy. It was grounded on the premise that talent, however buried in upbringing or shackled by the demands of contemporary culture, will seek outward expression. The remainder was simple, if not difficult: finding and nurturing the inner drive of exceptional individuals. Anselm fought against a life-long desire to garner approval while believing he needed validation for his ambition. Sarah, on the other hand, by virtue of chance possession by a hunter demon, confronted an internal struggle, not with the world around her, rather the forces now within her. What made them valuable to the Order was that each, in their own way, found a way to incorporate, if not integrate, these influences.

The prompt word:

GRIP

“How do you feel about risking your life?”

{Still was the seated speaker; of the three others in the room: one swayed a millimeter out-of-true as fear and ambition moved in opposite directions, one leaned into the voice, following a word-borne scent, and, the third stood confident, knowing the character of all in attendance.}

“The Order requires one of you to travel to the Transylvanian city of Brașov and return with a certain mechanism, now in the possession of our sister, Mother Schader; the peril is great, yet if successful, we may well attain an advantage over the time traveler.”

{Although none of the other three in the office failed to observe her smile, all differed in their silent interpretation; one felt youthful confidence tighten it’s grip, a gladiator to the emperor’s nod; one returned the smile, a silent roar of the predator at the scent of it’s prey’s exhaustion, and, the third saw the acceptance of responsibility in knowing that both would be necessary, each to shore up the other’s weakness while imposing restraint against their strengths.}

“Sarah, Brother Abbott has suggested you accompany Anselm on his mission, do you accept?”

{Closing her eyes, the final discharge of her authority complete, she nevertheless felt from the three others in her office: one dampening the energy of anticipation, one clutching at pride and duty like tree roots, a handsbreath away on the bank of a storm-quickened river, and, the third sensed a predator seeing a gate of it’s cage momentarily left unlocked and under-attended.}

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Reprint-Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

August 9, 2021 By clarkscottroger

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Interesting thing; it took five years of Augustseses.. to find a post done on today’s date, the 9th (of August).

Well, interesting to me.

Hey! Here’s a almost-justifiable rationale for reprint posts: many of the Readers who currently frequent the Doctrine blog didn’t see the following post when it was first written. You know, the early days, when the examples and illustrations of how the Wakefield Doctrine could be of a benefit were coming at a rate faster than we could type.

In any event, below is a post from August 9th 2082

Funny thing, we did, in fact, have a Saturday Night Drive conversation with Cynthia this very weekend! Go figure.

Random Monday the Wakefield Doctrine (if this were organized like a real personality theory, you’d have to pay for it)

August 11, 2014 By clarkscottroger (Edit)

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So we (Cyndi and Denise and yours truly) were talking on the WDSLDR Call-in this Saturday. The topic was, superficially, about rogers, but in actuality, it was about clarks.

…because, the Wakefield Doctrine is for you, not them

we came to the conclusion that, prior to entering a new situation, most clarks prefer to know more (about the situation) rather than less. Sometimes this is a reasonable ambition, other times it is not. When it is not, clarks tend to retreat into their heads, in an effort to ‘figure out’ their best approach to the situation. Of course, this tactic will result in our clark not actually participating in the actual events. With this non-attentiveness to the reality we are in, our status of being the Outsider is totally assured. So, as we discussed on Saturday, how do you properly prepare for events that lie in the future and are therefore not completely knowable? (We rolled down the windows and yelled and hooted at a car full of kids from school going in the opposite direction.*) We were using, as the example of this principle, the new work situation that Cyndi was facing at the start of the new year. Most telling was that it was ‘knowing the people’ that she was going to be expected to work with (and in some cases, direct and manage). While we (Denise and me) were no help with the particulars of her work environment, it did occur to us that:

…with the Wakefield Doctrine, you (or me) or maybe just Cyndi, already knows everyone she is going to be working with, even if she has never met them before that first day… they will be clarks or there might be a scott there (probably not two, at least not in the same work environment) and a whole bunch of rogers. so, ‘fear of the unknown? not for this clark!’

We laughed, in part (or in whole), at the realization that, even after years of study, the Wakefield Doctrine still had new insights to offer!

Our conversation continued well past the normal cutoff time of the Saturday Night Drive (8:00 to 8:45 pm EDST). So, if you are in possession of a telephone next Saturday Night give us a call! It’s fun and informative and you will benefit!

with the insights afforded by an understanding of the (principles) of the Wakefield Doctrine, you will never need find yourself saying, “How could they say such at thing? I really thought I knew them better than that!”

…clarks think, scotts act and rogers feel

rogers organize parties, scotts are the most sought after guests and clarks find themselves there, despite their best efforts to the contrary

You know that old aphorism …or chestnut or, ‘come here son, I have something about Life to tell you’, thing about ‘if you have a job that you need done, ask a…’? Well, the Wakefield Doctrine says:

if you need it done right as soon as possible and you don’t care how neatly, or carefully (or correctly) done it is……… ask as scott

if you need it done, don’t mind not getting credit for it being done and don’t care how long it takes to get done………. ask a roger

if you need it done and you’d rather be doing something/anything else and you don’t care if it is completely done (better than you had hoped) or completely done…….ask a clark

* I think that was a scene from either ‘American Graffiti’ or it could have been ‘Dazed and Confused’