Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is our contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, the only requirement is to present a story in six (and only) six sentences.
[ed note: In deference to one of our ESL Sixarians, I will impose his ‘One punctuation mark = one Sentence’ interpretations of the Rule of SIx. All in the interest of nurturing the most egalitarian of communities, of course. This one time. lol]This week’s prompt word:
KNOT
“Wait! Don’t move!”
Female laughter, confidently brash, yet very much in the key of ‘come hither’, overflowed from the undiscovered country outside the circle of light currently painting the twisted and tangled bedsheets a lavender-pink color.
“One word about Gordian knots and you’ll be on Harvard Street trying to figure out where to put your phone.”
The current chair of Radcliffe University’s Department of Advanced Anthropology and Cultural Semiotics, Leann’s voice commanded my attention; her body, however, totally controlled my more corporeal elements as two a.m. snuck towards us like a teenager trying to get his girlfriend home without alerting her father, time-worn copy of the ‘Am Bròn Binn’ on his lap, asleep in a chair on the front porch.
Although I wasn’t overly surprised at her deploying the Alexandrian reference, the imagery of a painting by Berthélemy, courtesy of the École des Beaux-Arts during my recent trip to Europe, assured our commingled laughter; it provided the perfect end to a day that began with my surprise visit to her lecture, ‘Scylla and Charybdis: Conjoined twins of anti-patriarchal Militarism or Adolescent fantasy‘, and ended in the master-bedroom of her house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Glad to see that erudite academics can have fun too, Clark.
My favourite description this week: ‘as two a.m. snuck towards us like a teenager trying to get his girlfriend home without alerting her father…’
(ah! the lives we get to live through our writing) “…the pen is mightier than the memory!” (Sir Walter Winchell)
The fact that her father reads Am Bròn Binn does not augur well for the teenage lad!
PS You realise that we Scots consider you colonials as ESLers…
fer sure!
not to disagree*
the more interesting question, where is the linguistic ground zero? (Surely in geography, if not in history, there is a place we can identify the place (and time) the first person said (to another person) “What!?! Speak English!!”
*like any clark would disagree for the sake of a longer comment! lol
you need to write a book. you get so much into these.good six
dude! I have a couple of those waiting for me to tackle them for a fourth (or fifth) polish. My favorite is ‘Almira’
What Paul said!
…not to create the hard-avoid/easy-to-deny atmosphere of pressure to: publish a book or anything, for that matter)*
*lol
Ha! Classic Clark, from start to finish, my favorite though the second paragraph, lots of sparkly bits in there.
Thankee, Miz Avry
You never fail to entertain and inspire.
Ty MM
I miss Ian Devereaux! Me, I’m holding out he gets back together with Hailey one day but until then…go Leanne! lol
Enjoyable read, Clark.
Amusing, entertaining and a jolly good read!
Thanks Keith!
snuck towards us like a teenager trying to get his girlfriend home without alerting her father,… INDEED!!
lol (was fun to write)
It sounds like there are benefits to staying to the end of a lecture even if it is on “anti-patriarchal Militarism”. Of course, the benefits may vanish in the morning.
there is always that… the morning of the next day is the ultimate critic