Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
Hey! You’ve been good Readers. A ‘reward’ is surely in order. And what do Readers, (or audiences or (those) curious about a sequence), enjoy more than what used to be called trailers?
Trailers-with-backstories-and-the-opportunity-to-influence-the-ongoing-Narrative!
So here are the current Serial Sixes and some behind the scenes*.
- Rue DeNite: originally from Martha’s Vineyard (we think); has a child but she taken away; is a dancer at the Bottom of the Sea Strip Club and Lounge; the owner, Lou Ceasare, thinks highly enough of her to send her on a dangerous reconnaissance mission in Miami (FLA)
- Ian Devereaux: he and Leanne are still an item; he and Diane are not, (through no fault of either), given their respective predominant worldviews; spending almost too-much time in his office (or at the Bottom of the Sea)
- Six Sentence Café & Bistro: well, lets take a roll-call: the Proprietors, Tom, the Sophmore (kinda of a timetraveler), an excellent doggie, and a summer waning, which almost surely demands a barbecue
Alright, what does this have to do with the three little bears?**
*Waay big caveat here, yo. These serials are total SOP. That said, valid insight/suggestion as to characters are not ignored.
** flashback to college dorm days… you can only imagine… picture if you will an: 18 y.0. clark, scott and roger!
That picture of the three no-longer college-age progenitors at the top of the post? Erase the wrinkles, restore the hair, reduce the weight (somewhat) and cleanse their minds of the years of love-and-loss, hope-and-disappointment, dreams-and-dimming-energies. Friends who had sufficient complimentary foibles and faults to make each a better person, some in the immediate context and others in the far-distant future, when time and age distills each of the three closer and closer to their true spirits.
Clearly they haven’t aged a day.
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Nice clarifications.
We don’t age, we just kind of learn to behave in public. Well, most of us do.
lol
This is a true statement,
But! Since you’ve gone and suggested a curious perspective, (as you have a habit of doing), while we’re all quite used to the idea of looking at the past to see the hints of the future, what might we learn/see/enhance-our-self-understanding-of-our-selves if we look at the future (or, to start slow, the present) with an eye to seeing how inevitable it is that we get where we are from where we were?
oh, wait
never mind
that’s kinda what the Wakefield Doctrine is intended (not me! it was a total gift, all I did was write it down! lol no, plastic not gold for the dinnerware lol) to help us see