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:
VOW
“So what’s the most useful insight into the Order of Lilith that you can give me?”
Leanne lead me, through the miasma of college hormones and ambition, across the quad to the Pavement Coffee House at the Smith Center where we confronted the social challenge faced by patrons of sidewalk cafés where round tables are deployed; the strength of the partnership element of most marriage vows is often the first to crack while decided where to sit.
Still standing to my right, she said, “If this were a first date and, for god knows what reason, I wanted to impress you, …and I was in a Zen mood, my answer would be ‘Mu’”
I was not surprised when the chairperson of the Department of Cultural Semiotics and Advanced Anthropology pulled out a chair and nodded for me to sit; I sat.
Without a word, Leanne walked away; in a far shorter time than one might expect, given the coffee shop was in Harvard Square and it wasn’t July, she returned with a cardboard tray holding two coffees and three Pain au Chocolat.
She sat; “Any other questions?”
About clarkscottroger
He is going to have to be more specific about the Order of Lilith. I am kind of curious what it is as well. I noticed she ordered three Pain au Chocolat. I wonder who will get the third assuming he gets even one. Nice presentation of mysterious Leanne.
Back of envelop description of the Order of Lilith: a fictional organization going back to Genesis 1:27(ish*)
In any event, the Order of Lilith is a representation of the rebellion against the patriarchy that manifests in a subtle and, plot-enhancing manner as the forces of Good seek to counter-act the destructive instincts under which the Sons of Adam labor.
*biblical scholars recognize the ‘ish’ as a Hebrew suffix originally meaning, ‘Hey, guys, you know he’s making this stuff up, right?
Is there a site where you have published the entire series, or is it a book?
if you’re referring to these recent Six Sentence Story(s) that involve Ian Devereaux and Rosetta Storme and Sister Aclima, they are literal (ha ha) WIPs (works in progress)… we are all discovering where the story goes on a weekly basis. I have not, at this point, compiled them in their own blogs (or books)
I have other stories, but none have as of yet been published (other than in a serial sense in the posts of the Wakefield Doctrine.
…now that you say that, maybe I could create a Page and compile the story there so that one (a New Reader) would not have to sift through old posts and read them.
I wonder if he really wants to know, then again, he probably has to.
our people are so damn curious… at least rogers (and some scotts) will read ‘the write-ups/movie reviews’ or give a thing a sniff before tearing across the narrative landscape, ya know?
Well, that went from Mu to Pain au Chocolat right quick!
…and then zen there were two
Sorry, too busy munching at the moment… coffee and pain au chocolat (yum).
Great song, by the way… where’s my napkin?
lol does sound good, doesn’t it?
seeing how your hands are full (having provided our Gentle Reader with a serviette de collation) allow us to provide a link to the link/key to our Miz Thunberg’s somewhat (and hopefully entertaining answer to Ian’s sincere question)
Her actual answer about what to know about the Order of Lilith was she held a chair for Ian, got the pastry and served it to him. No words or long explanation required. (and that’s kinda the information about the Order she wanted to convey)
the Mu?
from our google search: ‘Mu’ refers to the famous Zen Buddhist koan about “Mu” (無), a single character meaning “no,” “not,” or “nothingness,” used to challenge conceptual thinking, particularly in response to the question of whether a dog has Buddha-nature (Joju’s Dog), prompting practitioners to break through dualistic thought to realize true emptiness and their innate Buddha-nature through intense meditation on this “unanswerable” question.
more coffee?
Gosh, thanks for all that useful information… will I remember, I wonder? Still, I am saying ‘hi’ to Ian, just now. Then I’ll have to run…
lol (careful he’ll get convinced her’s hearing voices…again)
Ian, Ian. Was he sitting there and never knew he had the key? (to para-para phrase some lyrics, lol) Actions speak louder than words, if we can “hear” them. I suspect Ian’s hearing is very good.
so now we know, ‘he’d rather not eat his lunch all by himself’
Coffee and chocolate bread, and excellent Talking Heads can be the start of a beautiful and twisty relationship.
twisty indeed