Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Hosted by Denise, constrained by a sentence limit (high and low) of six, there are worse ways to spend the remaining time you have on earth.
Prompt word:
FORCE
I managed to arrive in time for Leanne’s closing of the last lecture of the semester; the auditorium was packed, with the young grad students in the spell of my friend’s intellect, you could hear a pin drop as I waited for the closing rhetorical flourish an element of her teaching style that, in part, accounted for her being the youngest department chair at Radcliffe.
“That will be all, class; finals are next week, if you have any issues make an appointment and we’ll make you understand what is expected of you, this is Cultural Semiotics people, not rocket science; if doubts linger, remember what Carl Jung said “Das wisst ihr ja bereits, überprüft eure Archetypen! Und vielleicht solltet ihr eure Dosis an halluzinogenen Substanzen erhöhen.”
Although I stood in the open doorway of the lecture hall laughing, the river of exiting graduate students flowed around me into the lobby and from there the campus at large; I was not bumped into, jostled or otherwise affected… physically.
“Your gung fu is mighty, sensei,” Dr. Leanne Thunberg, laughing in a way that somehow was PG, R and, somehow, the hint of an X Rating, put her left arm around my waist and steered me through the human-rapids of the still very busy corridor; force of Nature came to mind as the crowd parted before her.
“If you feel invisible, hell, insubstantial, it’s your age,” I let her guide me to the exit and out onto the former Radcliffe, now Harvard quad; “I’m visible, mostly because I am a force in the academic lives of these kids, like god or spirit of the place. And if you’re good and asking me interesting questions, I will allow you to make an offering at my…temple.”
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I do like her style! brilliantly written!
thankee Miz V
Thought-provoking story!
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I sense that Leanne Thunberg is a civilized, academic version of Rosetta Storme.
damn! have a reached a limit in diversity or am I indulging in a bit of a creative rut…. hmmm maybe since I am due to do another Sister Aclima Six, I can stretch a bit… which, in a sense I have, she’s the only probably alcoholic character extant in these Sixes
She is certainly in charge of her world.
What an interesting scene, especially since I had to look up the German. And that was interesting (C. Jung… again) – and really?
Oy. I know that feeling of walking through a wall of your students — and being invisible. (laughing) Excellent Six, Clark.
Thank you, M!
Standing right behind you two, following & eavesdropping. So vivid!
the sound of youth and the smell of Patchouli, pot and Love’s Baby Soft
right?
(hearing Donovan singing the Baby Soft commercial)