Month: June 2022 | the Wakefield Doctrine

Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ( a Whitechapel Interlude Six)

June 17, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Denise the host.

(It’s no secret that one of the pleasures/benefits we derive from participation in this bloghop is the opportunity to learn from others and, with any luck, improve our own word skills. By imitation, if not education. In any event, last week Chris wrote this installment in her serial story, ‘The Jade Camel’ that was pure action, from start to finish. So, naturally, we thought, “Damn! I’d love to be able to do that.” As we all know, when it comes to writing fiction, the best way to learn is through constant practice.)

The prompt word:

STROKE

The door to his hotel suite was on the receiving end of the only free appendage available to Brother Abbott, specifically, his left foot. The rest of his body was committed to winning the heart of Eugénie Descartes who, giving up hope of physical resistance, deployed wave after wave of blonde hair down over his face, hoping to undermine his confidence in the precise location of his bed.

The young woman, her heart taking leave of the earth as her feet left the floor, noticed the man becoming mired by indecision whether to continue his initial romantic sortie while standing or doubling down on his physical advantage in the waiting bed. He badly underestimated the price of consulting his brain in matters of the body, confronting the row of buttons down the back of the waitress’s blouse, a simple but effective defense; victory in love’s timeless battle would, pyrrhic or not, appear to be within the woman’s grasp.

Now, on the silk and pillow-strewn battlefield, Eugénie took matters in her own hands and, pulling the offending article of clothing over her head, paused, knee-upright on the bed and waved it over her head, cheerful traitor signaling the castle keep was his for the taking. A lesser man might attribute the outcome of the night as testament to his skill with women, even while acknowledging the chance stroke of luck; Brother Abbott, having had his view of the world enhanced by his time in the Order of Lilith, smiled at what a fool Adam had been.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 16, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Denise the host.

The prompt word:

STROKE

“I’ve always wondered about why people are so taken with the expression, ‘The stroke of midnight’, you know?”

The compound sentence establishes a presence in your mind like a professional wrestler at a First Communion party, clearly the strategic approach is to hear it out; this proves to be a big mistake as it proceeds to split apart, one down to your gut and the other your mind, and a wave of nausea splashes up and against the ice storm racing across your scalp.

Your habit of sprinting into fantasy versions of life whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the stress of direct human interaction stutters just a moment, this allows you to resist the urge to speed rap on your provocative, if not off-the-wall observation, even as images of hot-looking villainess’ from random Disney cartoons and and other hormonal irrationality tries to grab the wheel and show you a route that nobody’s ever driven.

Sitting opposite you in the truck stop booth, the girl shows none of the familiar signs of exhaustion or it’s emotionally-conjoined twin, boredom; as a matter of fact, unless you’re mistaken, she’s calling your bet with a smile and a half-laugh that sounds at home in a half-lit bedroom.

You immediately assume two things: you’ve said something right and the dream from which you’ve always awoken prematurely is not over; being two forty-four in the morning, the interior of the diner somehow is becoming a miniature version of that 1970’s evangelical atrocity of a church in California, searching your mind for the name of the guy who built it you stop, grab yourself by the collar, all while reminding yourself not to show anything on your face or make a sound out-loud, like an outburst of laughter, as the mature part of your mind manages to take over motor control long enough to return her smile.

You hear yourself speaking and see the girl nodding and, for a moment, believe that the sun might yet rise on a day you do not wake up alone; the last thought you hear that does not arise from your busy, busy mind is: ‘Second Person Point-of-View isn’t the only perspective on reality’.

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Six Sentence Story -the Wakefield Doctrine- ( a Café Six)

June 15, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop

Denise the host.

The prompt word:

STROKE

The door out to the roof was a flaking-rust-and-grey metal that made the Sophomore think of Medieval battlements and overdue term papers.

Stepping out onto the roof itself, he was struck by the size of the open area, broken up by a variety of levels, platforms, inclines and structures; suddenly remembering a book by Edwin Abbott that lit up the dark loneliness of early adolescence, he thought, ‘This would pass as Heaven to the inhabitants of Flatland’.

Most of the roof was covered in a relatively-small gauge gravel, the surface was rough enough to allow for non-slip walking in the winter but, if seized by the impulse to lie down, it was smooth enough to require only two beach towels.

“Screw the gamma or infrared or whatever rays we should be screening, since the ocean will not come to the Bistro, let’s agree to pretend the beach has come to the Café, shall we?”

The Sophomore tried to feel as relaxed as the supine man now lying on a rectangle of long staple Egyptian cotton beach towels, but gave up immediately and opted for a double-elbow, elevated upper torso position on the towel next to the tall, closed-eye man to his left.

“Young dude, we’re almost an animate semicolon; and, for the record, I love this song,” the man remained motionless during the gale of laughter he unleashed on the high-urban beach where both man, and semi-man, lay singing…

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Wednesday -the Wakefield Doctrine- Bonus Post

June 15, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Hey! Reader Advisory: this is very much a graduate-level Doctrine Post. Which, of course, is a total catnip description to any clarklike Readers.

So, here you go:

Let’s say you’ve gotten mad at someone, someone at a distance, say a customer service rep for a large, all-powerful, faceless mega-corporation. You’re promised a call back to explain the unexplainable.

With us?

How do you use the principles of the Wakefield Doctrine to make sure your attempt to exact a pound of virtual flesh from the voice-only representative of this 21st C Mammon?

Simple!

First: determine the predominant worldview of the person to whom you’re speaking.

Second: if they’re a

clark (Outsider) make them understand how, in both the grand and the mundane scheme of things, meaningless they are
scott (Predator) impress upon them how truly and irrefutably powerless they are
roger (Herd Member) let them know, in no uncertain terms, how insignificant they are

There you go! Free and unsolicited advice from your apparently way immature curator of the Wakefield Doctrine tool chest and museum.

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RePrint Monday -the Wakefield Doctrine-

June 13, 2022 By clarkscottroger

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

Today’s reprint is pretty straight-forward (at least so it seemed, when I scanned it just now) and action oriented. So let’s get right do to it.

October 23, 2020

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

At last! Friday! With all its pressure to make the cost of the weekdays feel worthwhile, and most of its promise to allow sufficient enjoyment to believe we are not all running on invisible hamster wheels.

New Readers (and not-so-new-Readers) Here is our challenge for the weekend:

Find the clarks in your world and let them know that you know (but won’t tell anyone)

Spot the scotts (there will be one among your immediate social circle and at least one just out there) Make them laugh at something/anything*

Identify the rogers (to whoever said, ‘Like that’s gonna be tough, they make up 2/3s of the population‘, we retort: “Hold on, we’re not done with the assignment.”) Get within conversational range and compliment them, then leave before he/she can reciprocate.

Any questions?

Quick Guide to the three worldviews:

clarks tend to dress in a way that doesn’t look quite right, but not in a negative way. There is always something creative to the fashion/dress of a clark (in our North American culture, females enjoy a range of sartorial expression not normally enjoyed by their clarklike brethren, so why wouldn’t one make of the most of the metal and lace palette and employ a palette of color visible only to lifeforms more comfortable in the fluorescent end of the spectrum). When you spot a clark, make no sudden moves or otherwise draw attention to them, or they’ll blend into the woodwork faster than a chameleon on amphetamines in a pile of saw dust. Best way to let them know you know: listen for the jokes they mutter, the two of you will be the only ones laughing.

scotts ….well, scotts they’re there, thing is, its best (for the purposes of this assignment) that you spot them first**. In fact, the challenge in this….err challenge is to spot the scott before they spot you… good luck.

rogers… ok, don’t have to look too hard… well-dressed, (by local conventional standards), friendly and at the center of a moving spiral of people (if there are enough people) Warning: if you are a clark, do not attempt the challenge if your target Roger is not alone or has less than four people around them….

[Ed. Note: Yes, there is a correlation between the predominant worldviews of the Wakefield Doctrine and the three main characters in the Wizard of Oz. I mean, it’s as if the idea of a clark, scott and roger were, like, some kind of universal principles! lol If you’re trying to decide how to associate the three, remember, the Doctrine is about how a person relates themselves to the world around them.]
* extra points for it being a scottian female

** there is zero question that, once you’ve entered into their environment, (social, physical, sexual…pretty much all the ‘als’ other than spiritual, lol), they will notice you and interact with you if, for no other reason than to establish ranking***

*** total, defining dynamic in the world of the Predator